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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.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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