Section 17-649-14 - Mass changes in federal benefits(a) The department shall treat cost-of-living increases and any other mass changes in social security SSI payments and other programs where information on cost of living adjustments is readily available and is applicable to all or a majority of those program's beneficiaries as a mass change for food stamp purposes.(b) Households not subject to monthly reporting requirements shall not be responsible for reporting these changes. The department shall be responsible for automatically adjusting a household's food stamp benefit level. The change shall be reflected no later than the second allotment issued to nonmonthly reporting households issued after the month in which the change becomes effective.(c) Monthly reporting households shall report the change on the appropriate monthly report but are not required to report these types of changes outside of the monthly report. The branch shall handle such information provided on the monthly report in accordance with chapter 17-680.[Eff 3/19/93] (Auth: HRS § 346-14) (Imp: 7 C.F.R. §273.12(e)(3) )