Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-37.3

  • Department: means the department of human services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 346-1
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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

The department shall notify the child support enforcement agency of the amount of, and the periods during which, public assistance was provided to or for the benefit of any dependent child or children.