The state’s new Rent Relief and Housing Assistance Program (RRHAP) will help Hawai‘i residents with payments of up to $2,000 a month for O‘ahu households and $1,500 a month for ...
Read More Rental assistance available for hard-hit residents
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The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations continues to make progress to resolve unemployment claims and has implemented a new system for those who lost jobs because of COVID-19. ...
Read More DLIR issues .3B in benefits, launches lost wages aid
Need a place to quarantine or isolate because of COVID-19? You can call the Health Department’s Hawai‘i CARES line at 832-3100 or 1-800-753-6879 for placement or in-home services. “No one ...
Read More When you need to be alone
How do you control a pandemic? Part of the answer involves corralling as much real-time data as possible so everyone can see the same information and understand how we can ...
Read More New state dashboard for better public information
To fight the pandemic on all fronts, deploying the best community resources available, Governor Ige and his team are implementing a plan to help us navigate the pandemic in the ...
Read More A COVID action plan and leadership team for Hawai‘i
To protect public health and restart the economy, the governor has announced the Oct. 15 launch of the Safe Travels pre-testing program. The testing program enables residents and visitors to ...
Read More Hawai‘i to start pre-travel testing for residents, visitors
Reopening schools is a key part of the state’s overall plan to keep everyone safe while restarting the economy and getting people back to work. To do this, the state ...
Read More DOH guidelines for schools
The state is launching a new job training program for up to 650 workers displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic, using $10 million in federal CARES Act funds. The program, coordinated ...
Read More State announces worker training, PPE supply chain funds for small businesses
Several bills became law with the governor’s signature recently — from protecting the work of Hawai‘i’s musicians and managing climate change impacts on shorelines to fighting against domestic violence, abuse ...
Read More Virtual bill signings make history for state issues
Finding lifelines for Hawai‘i’s families in this pandemic — whether it’s access to food and other resources, free online “teachables,” or information from public health experts — is part of ...
Read More ‘Q & A Hawai‘i’: Reaching out in a pandemic