The fourth and final student loan payments for the first 780 Hawaii health care workers has been delayed but are now expected by the end of October, or at least the end of the year, according to the doctor in charge of overseeing the two-year program designed to keep and recruit workers.

Gov. Josh Green this year included two additional years of student loan payments worth another $300 million that should see the subsequent group of health care workers receiving their first of four student loan payments in March, according to Dr. Kelley Withy, who runs Hawaii’s 2-year-old Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program, or HELP, through the University of Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine.

The delay in the final loan payments for the original group was caused by a pending contract tha

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