HAR §17-676-89. Vendor payments

(a) Excluded vendor payments means payments made in money on behalf of a household, by a person or organization outside the household, using its own funds to make direct §17-676-89 676-64 payment to either the household’s creditors or a person or organization providing a service to the household. (b) Rent or mortgage payments and utility reimbursements paid to a landlord or mortgagee by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Farmers Home Administration (FmHA), or the Hawaii Housing Authority (HHA) shall be vendor payments. (c) If an employer, agency, former spouse, or other person makes payments on household expenses to a third party from funds not owed to the household these payments shall be excluded as vendor payments. (d) Payments by a government agency to a child care institution to provide day care for a household member shall also be excluded as vendor payments. (e) All or part of a financial assistance grant which is not made directly to the household, but paid to a third party on behalf of the household to pay a household expense, shall be considered an excludable vendor payment and not counted as income to the household if such financial assistance payment is for: (1) Medical assistance; (2) Child care assistance; or (3) Energy assistance. [Eff 3/19/93; am 10/16/95; am 10/28/96; comp 11/09/06] (Auth: HRS §346-14) (Imp: 7 C.F.R. §273.9(c)(1); Pub. L. No. 104-193 1996))