HAR §17-676-71. Averaging income and expenses

(a) Households, except for seasonal farmworker households, may elect to have income averaged. Income shall not be averaged for a seasonal farmworker household since averaging would result in assigning to the month of application income from future periods which is not available to the seasonal farmworker household for its current food needs. To average income, the department shall use the household’s anticipation of income fluctuations over the certification period. The number of months used to obtain the average income need not be the same as the number of months in the certification period. (b) Households which, by contract or self- employment, derive annual income intended to support the household for a year, in a period of time shorter than one year shall have that income averaged over a twelve-month period, provided the income from the contract is not received on an hourly or piecework basis. The households may include school employees, share croppers, farmers, and other self-employed households. However, these provisions shall not apply to migrant or seasonal farm workers. If the self- employment income is intended to support the household for only part of the year, the income shall be averaged over the period of time it is intended to cover. The procedures for averaging self-employment income are specified in subchapter 6 of chapter 17- 663. §17-676-71 676-42 (c) Households may elect to have fluctuating expenses averaged. Households may elect to have expenses which are billed less often than on a monthly basis averaged forward over the interval between scheduled billings, or, if there is no scheduled interval, averaged forward over the period the expense is intended to cover regardless of the certification period. (1) Households may elect to have one-time only expenses averaged over the entire certification period in which they are billed. (2) Households reporting one-time only medical expenses during their certification period may elect to have a one-time deduction or to have the expense averaged over the remaining months of their certification period. Averaging would begin the month the change would become effective. [Eff 2/7/94; am and comp 11/09/06] (Auth: HRS §346-14) (Imp: 7 C.F.R. §§273.10 (c)(3) and (d)(3), 273.21) Historical Note: §17-676-71 is based substantially upon §