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OHA committee approves allowing reallocation of $6.1M Eola emergency relief fund to clear backlog and focus outreach on SNAP recipients
Summary
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Budget & Finance Committee voted 8–1 on Jan. 14 to let OHA administration reassign portions of an existing $6.1 million Eola emergency relief fund to clear 261 approved federal-worker applicants and shift remaining outreach toward hard-to-reach native Hawaiian SNAP recipients, staff said.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ Budget & Finance Committee on Jan. 14 approved a motion to give OHA administration discretion to reallocate an existing $6,100,000 Eola emergency relief fund so the program can clear a backlog of approved applicants and better match current demand, trustees said.
Committee members heard a briefing from interim administrator Summer Silva and staff explaining that about $1,600,000 had been approved and dispersed as of Jan. 9 and that 261 fully approved federal native Hawaiian civil service employees remained on a wait list for $1,200 income-bridge payments. "The total funding amount remains unchanged at $6,100,000," Silva said in the committee presentation, and the proposed change would allow the administration to shift allocations between the two beneficiary groups without increasing the total fund or extending the…
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