Section 17-798.2-21 - Termination for insufficient funds(a) The department may, at its discretion, refuse to take new applications, reduce benefits, or terminate benefits when there are insufficient funds to pay child care payments at current amounts through the end of the State fiscal year.(b) Refusal to take new applications, reducing benefits, or terminating benefits will first be accomplished in reverse priority from what is listed in section 17-798.2-7. Priority will further be determined within the categories set forth in section 17-798.2-7 by income, with higher income family units terminated first.(c) The budget will be managed by reviewing monthly expenditures, and evaluating whether the cumulative expenditures at the end of any given month are less then or equal to the number of months that have expired in the fiscal year times 1/12 of the budget appropriation for child care payments.(d) When the department determines that the budget appropriation has or soon will be exceeded, notices of adverse action may be issued to limit the number of children receiving subsidies in any given month or to take other necessary action to operate within the child care budget appropriation. A decision under this subsection shall be final and conclusive. Haw. Code R. § 17-798.2-21
[Eff 03/08/08] (Auth: HRS § 346-14) (Imp: HRS § 346-14)