HAR §17-687-2. Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter: "Benefit" means the Hawaii Emergency Food Assistance Program payment that is a non-SNAP, state- sponsored, food benefit that can be redeemed at FNS- approved food retailers. "Categorically eligible" means a household was approved for November 2025 SNAP benefits pursuant to chapter 17-680. "Dependent child" means a child under eighteen years of age who is in the care of a specified relative. "Department" or "DHS" means the department of human services, State of Hawaii. "Department's designee" means a service provider contracted by the department to deliver the services described in this chapter. "Electronic benefit transfer" or "EBT" means the computer-based system that processes and distributes authorized benefits to qualified households from a central computer system through an automated teller machine or point-of-sale device. "Episode of need" means a critical situation for a categorically eligible household with a dependent child that does not have access to their SNAP benefits as a result of lack of federal funds for their SNAP benefit due to the on-going federal government shutdown. "Expungement" means the removal of benefits provided pursuant to this chapter from the EBT account to which they were issued typically by an EBT processor on behalf of the department. "FNS" means the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. 687-2 3613.1