Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-36

  • Public assistance: means financial assistance to or for the benefit of persons whom the department has determined to be without sufficient means of support to maintain a standard consistent with this chapter, payments to or on behalf of such persons for medical care, and social service payments as described under the Social Security Act. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
  • Recipient: means the person for whose use and benefit services are rendered or a grant of public assistance is made. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1

All public assistance granted under this chapter shall be deemed to be granted and held subject to any amending or repealing act that may be passed and no recipient under this chapter shall have any claim for compensation or otherwise by reason of the recipient’s assistance being affected in any way by any such amending or repealing act.