Section 17-663-88 - Mass changes in financial assistance(a) When the department makes an overall adjustment to financial assistance payments, corresponding adjustments in the households' food stamp benefits shall be handled as a mass change. When the branch has at least thirty days advance knowledge of the amount of the financial assistance adjustment, the branch shall recompute food stamp benefits to be effective in the same month- as the financial assistance change. If the branch has less than thirty days advance knowledge, the food stamp change shall be effective no later than the month following the month in which the financial assistance change was made.(b) A notice of adverse action shall not be required when a household's food stamp benefits are reduced or terminated as a result Of a mass change in the financial assistance grant. The branch shall send individual notices to households to inform the households of the change. If a household requests a fair hearing, benefits shall be continued at the former level only if the issue being appealed is that of food stamp eligibility or that benefits were improperly computed.[Eff 3/19/93; comp 11/19/05; am comp OCT 07 2010] (Auth: HRS § 346-14) (Imp: 7 C.F.R. §§273.12(e)(2); 273.13(b)(1))