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Page | 20 C. The Department may consider other circumstances beyond the individual's control in determining whether there was good cause for non-compliance. Examples of circumstances beyond the individual's control include, but are not limited to:

1) Illness of the individual which is verified by a medical statement from a licensed physician, psychiatrist or psychologist. 2) The individual's presence is required on a continual basis due to the illness of another household member and is verified by a medical statement from a licensed physician, psychiatrist or psychologist. 3) The individual is experiencing a family crisis or change of individual or household circumstances, such as death of an immediate family member, the household is currently homeless, or the household experienced a natural disaster. 4) Unsafe or unfair employment situations or inappropriate assignments that the Department determines would not lead to full-employment or self-sufficiency. 5) Self-employment that did not produce income equivalent to thirty (30) hours per week or one hundred twenty (120) hours per month of employment at the federal minimum wage after business expenses are deducted. 6) There is a breakdown in transportation arrangements with no ready access to alternate transportation. 7) The individual ends a sporadic work relationship that does not offer a reasonable possibility for permanent full-time employment and the individual is available to work full-time; or 8) The individual's failure was the result of being a survivor of domestic violence.

13.7 Mandatory School Attendance

Hawaii does impose a sanction on a family for failure to ensure that a minor dependent child attends school.

13.8 Secondary Education for Adults

Hawaii does not require and does not impose a sanction on a family that includes an adult who is older than twenty (20) and younger than fifty-one (51), if the adult does not