Section 17-678-3.01 - Monthly assistance allowance for TANF individuals in independent living arrangements or residential treatment facilities(a) The monthly assistance allowance shall be the basic needs expressed in a dollar amount per individual or household. The monthly assistance allowance includes cost for food, household supplies, personal essentials, educational and community activities, laundry, transportation, telephone, household equipment, household repairs, pregnancy diet, and shelter.(b) The monthly assistance allowance for TANF individuals in independent living arrangements or residential treatment facilities shall be forty-right per cent of the standard of need. (1) After the first two full months of assistance, the monthly assistance allowance for work eligible households shall be reduced by twenty percent; provided that the reduction shall not apply to a work eligible household in which each adult in the assistance unit is an independent minor parent and is a full-time student, as defined in section 17-656.1-2.(2) The two full months of assistance shall be counted from the month following the month a work eligible household is informed of the work requirements of the TANF program and shall be allowed once in a work eligible household's history of receiving TANF assistance.(3) A full month shall be a month in which the household is eligible for an assistance payment and the payment is not prorated.Haw. Code R. § 17-678-3.01
[Eff 1/25/97; am 9/26/97; am 01/22/02; am 1/17/08; am 8/07/09] (Auth: HRS § 346-14) (Imp: HRS § 346-53)