HRS §392-24
Seven-day wait before disability payments start
You cannot get temporary disability benefits for the first seven days of a disability period. If you have separate disability periods from the same or related cause, and they are less than two weeks apart, they count as one continuous period.
employees
The statute, as written — Waiting period
No temporary disability benefits shall be payable during the first seven consecutive days of any period of disability. Consecutive periods of disability due to the same or related cause and not separated by an interval of more than two weeks shall be considered as a single period of disability.
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