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The Economic and Employment Services Manual 10-21
Listing for Summary of Changes and State Commissioner's Letters |
Revision
Date
Revision
Number
Associated
Implementation Memo(s) |
Major Changes Included in Revision
(Only changes are listed.
Clarifications, poverty level
and
COLA increases
are not listed) |
10-01-21
Rev.104
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
- Duration of Child Care Plans
- Licensed Providers, Headstart Programs
- Employment Services
- Vocational Education
- Job Search/Job Readiness
- Work Program Penalty activity
- Activities identified as TANF Only
- Mentoring
- Food Assisance
- Resources
- Expunged Benefits
|
07-01-21
Rev.103
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
- The Family Share Deduction
- Income Eligible (Non-TANF) Child Care
- Priorities for Child Care Services
- Employment Services
- Potential Employment Violation
- Support Services Payments
- Able-bodied Adults Without Dependents
- Food Assistance
- Filing for Individuals Being Released from State Correctional Institutions
- Completion of Fair Hearing Summary
|
04-01-21
Rev.102 |
- Child Care
- How to Apply
- Reinstatement of Assistance
- Mandatory Members of HH
- Food Assistance
- Unclear information
- Employment Services
- Vehicle Purchase
|
01-01-21
Rev.101 |
- Food Assistance
- Verification at the Time the Change is Reported
- Mandatory Verification
- TANF
- School Enrollment
- Child in Family
|
10-01-20
Rev.100
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
- Determining Scheduled Hours
- Employment Services
- Work Related Requirements, Definitions, and Work Requirements
- Employment Service Participation (E & T Only) and Transportation
- Food Assistance
- Exempt Income
- Types of Countable Unearned Income
- TANF
- Non-Cooperation with Work Programs When in Hardship Status
|
07-01-20
Rev.99 |
- Child Care
- Social Service Child Care
- Employment Services
- Primary Employment Service Activities
- Job Search/Job Readiness
- Food Assistance
- TANF Drug Testing Comparable Disqualifications
|
04-01-20
Rev.98
Child Care Poverty Level Increases |
- Child Care
- The Child Care Plan
- TANF
- Time-Limited Assistance
|
01-01-20
Rev.97
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care Providers
- Income Eligible (Non-TANF) Child Care
- Exceptions to the Child Care Assistance Planning
- Food Assistance
- Homeless Shelter Expense
- TANF
- Hardship Status
- Non-Cooperation While in Applicant Status
- Non-Cooperation while in Hardship Status
|
10-01-19
Rev.96
Implementation Memo |
- All Programs
Vehicle Exemptions for All Cash, Child Care and Food Assistance Programs - exempted vehicle may be unlicensed
- Child Care Providers
Provider Selection
- Food Assistance
- ABAWD Tracking
- Reporting Requirements
- Crime Attestation
- Persons Exempt from the ABAWD Provision
- LIEAP
- Energy Vulnerability Requirement
- Self-Payment Requirement
- Income Eligibility
|
08-01-19
Rev.95 |
Child Care
Households Required to Change Report
|
07-01-19
Rev.94
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
- Reinstatement of Assistance
- Personal Need
- Income Eligible (Non-TANF) Child Care
- Income Producing Cost Deduction
- Proration
- The Child Care Plan
- Determining Scheduled Hours
- Termination of Child Care Plans
- Review Periods for Child Care
- Employment Services
- KEESM numbering and heading changes
- TANF and Food Asssistance Employment Services elements separated
- Food Assistance Recipients
- Mandatory recipients meet participation by participating in E & T
- Loss of work requirement exemption requires Work Registration
- Food assistance Support Services items added
- TANF 24-month time limit removed as reason to deny transitional support
- Food Assistance
- Additional Food Assistance Work Related Exemption for pregnant women
- Interim Report reminder notice
|
05-01-19
Rev.93
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
- Termination of Child Care Plans
- Role of Resource and Referral Agencies
- Food Assistance
- Death and Prisoner Match (Food Assistance Only)
- TANF
- Testing Positive for Illegal Use of a Controlled Substance
|
04-01-19
Rev.92 |
- Child Care
- Exempt Personal Property
|
01-01-19
Rev.91
Implementation Memo |
- Food Assistance
- Work Related Requirements
- Definitions
- Succuessful Families
- Curing A Work Program Penalty
- TANF Protective Payees
- TANF and Child Care Penalties
|
11-01-18
Rev.90
Implementation Memo |
Child Care
The Child Care Plan
|
10-01-18
Rev.89
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
- Informed Parental Choice
- Income Eligible (Non-TANF) Child Care
- The Family Share Deduction
- Termination of Child Care Plans
- Change Reporting Requirements
- Processing Changes Reported by Change Reporting Households
- Review Periods for Child Care
- Food Assistance
- Annual Adjustments
- Food Assistance Standards
|
07-01-18
Rev.88
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
- Income Eligible (Non-TANF) Child Care
- Personal Need
- TANF Child Care
- Termination of Child Care Plans
- Food Assistance
- Households Not to be Considered Categorically Eligible
- Able-bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD)
- Food Assistance Work Registration
- Regaining Eligibility
- Status Changes
- Additional Food Assistance Work Related Exemptions
- Primary Work Activities
- Successful Families
- SASSI Requirements
- Gather Information
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05-01-18
Rev.87
Implementation Considerations for the March Release of KEES |
- All Programs
- Frequency of Reviews removed from 9370
- Telephonic Signature
- Responsibility to Accept an Identifiable Application
- General Information
- Application Date
- Unsigned Applications
- Food Assistance
- Review Periods for SSI Households section removed
- Special Provisions for Matches Obtained Via the eDRS
- Exceptions to Expedited Timeliness Standards
- Special Provisions for Matches Obtained Via the eDRS
- Verification of Questionable Information – New Applicants - Moved to Kansas From Another State
- TANF and Child Care
- TANF and Child Care Noncooperation Penalties
- TANF, Child Care, and Food Assistance
- Expedited Paternity Establishment
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01-01-18
Rev.86 |
- All Programs
- Funeral Agreements exempt resource
- Food Assistance
- Collecting Claims greater than $125
- Interim Report 10 day reminder
- Dependent Care
- Civil Rights Complaints
- Food Assistance and TANF
- Coverdell Education Savings Accounts exempt resource
|
10-01-17
Rev.85 |
- Food Assistance
- Annual Adjustments
- Food Assistance Standards
- Food Assistance Resources
|
08-18-17
Rev.84 |
- Child Care
- Child Care Plan Hours
- Child Care and
TANF
- Recoupment based on benefit amount
- Food Assistance
- Deductible Expense Disregards
- Excess Medical Deduction
- TANF
- Prohibition of Less than $10 Payments
- Review Periods for Cash
|
07-01-17
Rev.83
|
- All Programs
- Child Support Arrearage
- Medical Assistance
- Pro-biotics and Enzymes as Medical Expense
- Transfer of Property
- Spousal Impoverishment
- TANF and Child Care
- Review Periods for Cash
|
05-01-17
Rev.82
Implementation Memo |
- All Programs
- Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Accounts
- Exempt Income, Gift Cards
- Income Producing Cost Deduction
- Referral Procedure for Applying for an SSN
- Food Assistance
- School Attendance Comparable Penalty
- Interim Report
- Successful Families
- Federal work participation rate
- TANF and Child Care
- Good Cause for Failure to Cooperate
- Failure to Cooperate
- Adequate Notice Only
- Timely and Adequate Notice
|
04-01-17
Rev.81
Medical Only |
- Medical Assistance
- Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) accounts
- Disability Trusts
- Direct Express Account
- Fair Hearings
- Act in Own Behalf
- COLA Mass Change
- Substantial Home Equity
- Medicare Savings Programs
- Medicare Part D Subsidy
- 15 Day Rule
- Medically Needy
- PACE
- DDS Determination
- Transfer of Property
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03-01-17
Rev.80
Medical Only |
- Medical Assistance
- Protected Filing Date for persons applying for Medicaid on the basis of disability
|
01-01-17
Rev.79
Implementation Memo
COLA
Memo |
- Food Assistance
- Referral to Child Support Services
- Residence - Temporary absence definition
- LIEAP
Energy Vulnerability Requirement - Deep Subsidy definition
|
10-01-16
Rev.78
Implementation Memo |
- All Programs
- Record Retention
- Food Assistance
- Annual adjustments
- Fleeing Felons
- ABAWD Tracking
- TANF and Child Care
Non-Cooperation with a Fraud Investigation
- TANF
- Work/Self-Sufficiency Requirements
|
07-01-16
Rev.77
Implementation Memo |
- All Programs
Mandatory Identity verification
- Child Care
- How to Apply – Applicable to All Programs
- Time in Which Application is to be Processed and Case Disposition
- Termination of Assistance
- General Requirements
- Personal Need
- JO (TANF) Child Care and EM (Non-TANF) Child Care
- Priorities for Child Care Services
- Kansas Early Head Start/Child Care Partnership
- Maximum Allowable Resource Limits
- Eligibility Period for Child Care Assistance
- Determining Scheduled Hours
- Termination of Child Care Plans
- Households Required to Change Report
- Frequency of Reviews
- Licensed Providers
- Child Care Providers
Licensing requirement
- Food Assistance
Work Registration Requirements
- TANF and Child Care
Failure to Cooperate with Fraud Investigation
- TANF and Employment Services
- 24-Month Time Limit
- Possible 36-month extention
- TANF Only Work Related Exemption for child under 2 months
- TANF
- Removal of KANSASWORKS Registration Requirement
- Completion of Self-Assessment Form
- Completion of Online Employment Services Orientation Tutorial
|
05-01-16
Rev.76 |
- All Programs
Complaint Procedures and Civil Rights Complaints
- Food Assistance
Persons Exempt from the ABAWD Provision
- Medical Assistance
Medicare Part D Subsidy
|
01-01-16
Rev.75 |
- LIEAP Income Guidelines
- Successful Families
- Two Parent Child Care Component (PRC)-TANF Only
- Physical Health Care (PHC)-TANF Only
- Special Services Allowance
|
10-01-15
Rev.74
|
- All Programs
Income and Resources: Replaced the words “husband and wife” with the words “both spouses”
- Child Care
Fraud Determination referrals
- Food Assistance
Annual adjustments
- Medical Assistance
- 300% Income Test
- Reviews
- Prior Medical
- Verification
- Budgeting
- Base Periods
- Transfer of Property
- Same Sex Marriage
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Waiver
- Successful Families
Assistance Planning: Common-law marriage states the couple holds each other out as “married” to the public instead of as “husband and wife.”
|
07-01-15
Rev.73
Implementation Memo |
- All Cash, Child Care and Food Assistance Programs
Vehicle Resources
- Child Care
- Maximum Allowable Resource Limits
- Households Required to Change Report: Resources
- Child Care Providers
- In-Home Providers
- DCF Child Care Provider Agreement
- Background Checks
- Provider Audits
- In-Home Relative Applications
- Mandated Reporter
- Food Assistance
- Drug Felony Conviction
- Child Support Referral
- Successful Families
- 36 Month Time Limit
- Definition of Fraud
- Money Payments
- Successful Families and Employment Services
36 Month Time Limit
|
05-01-15
Rev.72
Implementation Memo |
- Employment Services
- Employment Retention
- Orientation
- Food Assistance
Claims Discharged through Bankruptcy
- Medical Assistance
HCBS Autism Waiver Start Date
- Successful Families
Protective Payee
|
04-01-15
Rev.71
Implementation Instructions for 2015 Medical Poverty Level Increases |
Medical Assistance
Poverty Level Increases
|
01-01-15
Rev.70
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care Changes
Verification Provisions
- Child Care and Successful Families Changes
- TANF and Child Care Penalties
- Verification Provisions
- Medical Assistance
Changes PACE Expansion
|
10-01-14
Rev.69
|
- Food Assistance
Annual Adjustments to the Food Assistance Program
- Food Assistance and Successful Families
Resource limit increase
|
|
|
08-01-14
Rev.68
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
EM (Non-TANF) Child Care
- Food Assistance
- Request for Federal or Federally Assisted Programs - release of any personal infromation for Lifeline applicants.
- Food Assistance Included Members
- Medical Assistance
- Reasonable Opportunity
- When New Application is Required
- Residency
- Successful Families
Supplying Information
|
07-01-14
Rev.67
Implementation Memo |
- Food Assistance
- Standard Utility Allowance (SUA)
- Comparable Treatment for Penalties/Disqualifications
- Medical Assistance
- Transfer of Property
- QMB Start Date Exceptions
- Review Reconsideration Period
- Fair Hearings
- Successful Families
- Drug Testing Requirements Specific to TANF
- Assessing Penalties
- Alcohol and Other Drug Assessment and Treatment (AOD)
|
05-01-14
Rev.66
|
- Child Care
Included Individuals
- Food Assistance
- Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH)
- Fraud Unit Referrals
|
04-01-14
Rev.65
Implementation Instructions for 2014 Medical Poverty Level Increases |
Medical Assistance
Poverty Level Increases
|
02-01-14
Rev.64
COLA
Memo |
- Medical Assistance
- MediKan delinked from GA
- Self-employment income for all medical programs will be based on the countable net income as reported on the federal income tax form
- PACE start date will now be the month after the month the case is actually processed
- Residency requirement has been modified for non-institutionalized individuals
- Who may file an application is being expanded to include an adult who is included in the tax filing household of the individual applying for assistance
- Reasonable opportunity to provide verification of citizenship status and identity has been modified
|
01-01-14
Rev.63 |
- Child Care Providers
- Requirements to Approve Regulated and Unregulated Providers
- Violations of Provider Agreement
- Actions Which Warrant Termination or Denial of Provider Enrollment
|
11-01-13
Rev.62
November 1 ARRA Food Assistance Decreases Talking Points |
Food Assistance benefit decrease due to sunset of the increase under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). |
10-01-13
Rev. 61
Implementation Memo
|
- All Programs
Medical Assistance removed from DCF application
- Child Care
28 hours per week employment required to receive EM child care assistance
- Employment Services
Work Experience limited to 6 months during 48 months of TANF eligibility
- Food Assistance
- Annual adjustments
- Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) reinstated
- Successful Families
Definition of Fraud expanded to include items for which TANF benefits are not to be used
|
08-01-13
Rev. 60
|
Food Assistance
Review Interview for Elderly and Disabled
|
07-01-13
Rev. 59
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
Budgeting of Income
- Child Care and Food Assistance
Authorized Representatives
- Employment Services and Successful Families
KansasWorks (KWK)
- Food Assistance
- Time in Which Application is to be Processed
- Food Distribution on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) Disqualifications
- Definition of Trafficking
- Medical Assistance
Transfer of Property
- Successful Families
Felony Drug Convictions
|
05-01-13
Rev. 58
Implementation Memo
Poverty Level Memos
Child Care
Medical Assistance
|
- All Programs
- Health Profession Opportunity Grants
- Intermittent Income and Deductions
- Cash, Child Care, Food Assistance, and GA
- Qualified Non-Citizen Status for the Cash, Medical, and Child Care Programs
- Child Care
- EM (Non-TANF) Child Care
- Employment Services
- Child-Under Exemption (CU/EX
|
01-01-13
Rev. 57
Implementation Memo
COLA
Memo
|
- All Programs
- Training Allowances and Payments
- Lump Sum Payments
- GI Bill
- Food Assistance and Cash Assistance
- Budgeting of Income
- Food Assistance
- Re-establishing Eligibility Following a Comparable Penalty or a Potential Employment Penalty
- Prisoner Verification System
- Social Security Death Match
- Successful Families
- Social Security Applicant (SSA)
- Gather Information
- Mental Health Care (MHC)
- Physical Health Care (PHC)
- Agency Protocol Prior to Terminating TANF Cash Case Due to the 48-Month Time Limit and and Non-Cooperation with Child Support When in Hardship Status
|
10-01-12
Rev. 56 |
- All Programs
ICT includes First Contact Resolution.
- Medical Assistance
- Online Application
- Life Insurance
- Inmate Inpatient Hospital Coverage
- Elimination of the PRTF-CBA HCBS Grant Program
- Successful Families
Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault (DSA) - KEESM 3330.9 material revised and added
|
07-01-12
Rev. 55 |
- Medical Assistance
Transfer of Property
- Successful Families
Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault (DSA) - KEESM 3330.9 material removed.
|
05-01-12
Rev. 54
Implementation Memo
Poverty Level Memos
Child Care
Medical: Elderly and Disabled |
- Child Care
- Requirements to Approve Regulated Provider
- Requirements to Approve Unregulated Legally Exempt Provider
- Actions Which Warrant Termination or Denial of Provider Enrollment
- Successful Families
- Special Needs
- Hardship
|
01-01-12
Rev. 53
Implementation Memo
COLA
Memo |
- All Programs
- Inter-county Transfers
- Lump Sums, Diversion Payment
- Food Assistance
- Mandatory Verification That Affects the Amount of Program Benefits
- Student Participation Criteria
- Excess Medical Deduction
- Interim Report
- Successful Families
- Orientation, Assessment, Referral, Safety (OAR)
- Interview
- Applicant Eligibility Requirements Specific to TANF
- Successful Families and Child Care
Penalties For Fraud
- Successful Families, Child Care and Food Assistance
Thresholds for Overpayments and Fraud
|
12-01-11
Rev. 52
Implementation Memo |
- Successful Families
- Lump Sum Non-Recurrent Diversion Payment Program Option
- Hardship Status
|
11-01-11
Rev. 51
Implementation Memo |
- Child Care
- Reinstatement of Assistance
- EM (Non-TANF) Child Care
- Income Producing Cost Deduction
- Child Care and Successful Families
- Assistance Planning - Cohabiting boyfriend or girlfriend
- Non-cooperation with CSE
- Disposition of Obsolete Case Record Material
- Food Assistance
Comparable Treatment for Disqualification
- Successful Families
- 48 Month Time Limit
- Paternity Referrals
- Work/Self- Sufficiency Requirements
- Provisions Specific to TANF Support Services
- Failure to Meet Work Related Requirements
- Work/Self-Sufficiency Requirements and Support Services Specific to TANF Work Program Participation
- Assessment Process
- Child in Family
|
10-01-11
Rev. 50
Implementation Memo
Rev. 49 Implementation Memo
|
SOC Rev. 50
- Food Assistance:
Non-Citizens Unable or Unwilling to Provide Immigrant Documentation
- Successful Families
All school age children must be enrolled and attending school
|
SOC Rev. 49
- All Programs:
Two separate review forms have been developed to re-determine eligibility
- Food assistance:
- Resource Limits
- Annual Adjustments to the Food Assistance Program Standards
- Standard Deduction change
- Shelter Cost changes
- Interim Report Form
|
07-01-11
Rev. 48 |
- General Assistance: No longer allows a cash benefit
- Medical Assistance:
- Executive Reorganization, KDHE-DHCF
- Transfer of Property - Average private-pay daily rate increase
- Elimination of resource test for children and young adults
- Non-medically necessary services.
|
05-01-11
Rev. 47 |
- All Programs: EITC may now only be claimed at the end of the tax year
- Food Assistance: If eligible, use SUA for expedited cases rather than actual utilities
- Food Assistance and TAF:
- Check The Work Number for possible employment at the time of application, review and IR for all persons age 18 or older requesting or receiving benefits
- Telephone interviews mandated for food assistance and TAF applications
- Medical Assistance:
- All reference to the Plan for Independence has been removed
- Outline of communication responsibilities between EES eligibility staff, Benefit Specialists, and the Program Manager
|
01-01-11
Rev. 46
Implementation Memo
COLA
Memo |
- Adult Protective Services: Two attempts to make initial contact with an involved adult
- Food Assistance:
- Standard medical deduction
- Changes in SUA and LUA
- Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP):
- Removal of recent payment history requirement
- Customer choice of payment methods to providers
|
10-01-10
Rev. 45 |
- All Programs: Intercounty Transfer
- Child Care: EM child care assigned a family share deduction back up to the pre October 2009 levels
- Food
Assistance:
- Annual adjustments
- Cooperation with Quality Assurance
- Categorical Eligibility
- PMDD Referral Process
- WH Premium Exemption for American Indians
- Funeral Agreements
- Money Follows the Person (MFP)
- Successful Families: SRCC Work Components
|
07-01-10
Rev.
44 |
- Funeral Assistance suspended
- Medical Assistance
- Eliminates the 6 month resource review for medical cases that are within $300 of the resource limit
- Decrease in the average nursing home private pay daily rate used to calculate transfer penalties has been included.
|
05-01-10
Rev.
43
Implementation
Memo
|
- All Programs: Eligible non-citizens–Iraqi and Afghani special immigrants.
- Child Care
- SRS Staff Responsibilities Related to Providers (Excluding In-Home)
- Child Care Plan Authorization–Sleep Time for Children
- Food Assistance and TAF: Mandatory Verification
- Successful Families: Child Support and Alimony Income
|
01-01-10
Rev.
42
Implementation
Memo
COLA
Memo |
- All
Programs
- 2010
Census income
- Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund
- Exemption
of the supplemental $25 a week unemployment compensation
- Food
Assistance Employment and Training Program non-mandatory for recipients
- Non-TAF
reporting changes between SRS and the Clearinghouse
- General
and Medical Assistance: Citizenship, identification exemption for children
born to Medicaid recipients
- Medical
Assistance: Costs related to Medicare Part D and Subsidy program
- KLS
referral of GA and TAF recipients
- Twelve-
month GA life-time limit
- LIEAP
Centralized Application Processing
|
10-01-09
Rev.
41
Implementation
Memo
ARRA funded Child Care Family Share Reduction |
- Section 12000, Adult Protective
Services, has been renumbered and rearranged
- Temporary
family share reductions for EM child care
- Food
Assistance: Annual adjustments
- Waiver
of face-to-face interview for TAF and food assistance
- Certain
child support arrearage payments will be forwarded to the TAF customer and is
countable as income for TAF, food assistance, and child care.
- CSE
good cause for Grandparents as Caregivers
- Work
Incentive payment eligibility
- Boyfriend
father of an unborn child can no longer be required to be a member of the
household that includes the pregnant mother if no other mutual children are
in the home.
|
07-01-09
Rev.
40
Implementation
Memo |
- A
new section for handling requests for a guardian/conservator
- Change
to the life time limit for Tier II General Assistance (GA) and removal of
hardship limits
- Mandatory
use of the Child Care Plan Hours Worksheet
- Funeral
Assistance maximum allowable reimbursement changed to $550
- Medical
Assistance
- Change
in the Working Healthy (WH) premium requirements
- Increase
in the average nursing home private pay daily rate used to calculate transfer
penalties
- Modification
of treatment of third-party trusts due to clarification from the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Successful
Families
- Procedures
for SRCC referrals when drug or alcohol abuse is reported to CFS
- State
funding for the GA GP program ended
and now funded by TAF program
|
05-01-09
Rev. 39
ERRATA
Implementation
Memo
Poverty Level Increases |
- All
Programs
- Online
application with electronic signatures, and a new requirement for the timely
registering of applications
- Automatic
enrollment into the Lifeline Program
- Exempting
one-time lump sum payment of $250 for recipients of Social Security, SSI,
Railroad Retirement, and Veterans benefits
- Changes
mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, including the
removal of able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD)
- Increased Maximum Benefits for food
assistance because of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
- Less
restrictive treatment of annuities for TAF, food assistance, and Grandparents
as Caregivers
- The
$25 UC Stimulus payments are exempt for all programs except food assistance
|
01-01-09
Rev. 38
Implementation
Memo
COLA
Memo |
- Simplified
budgeting of child support and alimony income for the food assistance and
child care programs
- Food
assistance: New
ABAWD fixed 36 month period starts January 2009 and runs through December
2011
- LIEAP
- Change
in the methodology for determining if a consumer has met the self-payment
requirement and increase in the income threshold for the self-payment
exemption
- New
Federal Poverty guidelines
- Medical
Assistance
- Prescription
Drug Coverage
- Working Healthy Temporary Unemployment Period
- Successful
Families
- Work Transition Allowance removal
- Addition of Work Incentive Payment
- Hardship
Status allowing caretakers to explore
local resources, including home health care agencies, to care for a disabled
household member in order to gain access to work program services
|
10-01-08
Rev. 37
Implementation
Memo |
- Critical
incident notification process modification for APS
- Procedures
for notifying central office of a critical incident involving a child care
provider
- Food
Assistance
- Increase
in the standard deduction for household sizes of 1-3 from $134 to $144
- Increase
in the minimum benefit for 1-2 person households from $10 to $14
- Eliminating
the caps on the dependent care deduction;
- Permanent
exemption of combat pay for military personnel
- Excluding
all retirement accounts and 529 educational savings accounts
- Inclusion
of elderly and disabled households in simplified report
- Expedited
services
- Expedited date is the date of
application
- Date of discovery
- 529
educational savings accounts such as Learning Quest in Kansas are now exempt
as a resource for both TAF and food assistance
- Technology
Assisted (TA) Waiver program has been expanded effective August 1, 2008 to
include individuals transitioning from the Attendant Care for Independent
Living (ACIL) program
- Successful
Families
- Hardship
Criteria
- Hardship criteria established by the
twenty-fourth month of TAF
- Close cases not meeting hardship
criteria at the sixtieth month
- Hardship status and work program
exemptions for those adults over sixty years of age is being removed.
- Changes
are being made to the Work Programs requirements regarding
- Assessments
- 60-month time limit closure protocol
- Countable activities
- Reporting job search activities
- Zero-hour components
|
07-01-08
Rev. 36
Implementation
Memo |
- Special
Purpose and Special Needs child care rates replaced with the Enhanced Rate
for Special Care for children with disabilities
- Food
Stamp non-exempt earned income
mandatory verification procedures expanded to apply to the Child Care and TAF
programs
- Medical
Assistance
- Increase
in the monthly protected income level (PIL) for individuals receiving Home
and Community Based Services
- Change
in the resource treatment of certain third-party discretionary trusts is
being implemented due to the passage of Senate Bill No. 412
- Money
Follows the Person (MFP) implementation
- SRS
case managers will hold joint meetings between SRS, the OARS advocate, and
the customer at least every 6 months
|
05-01-08
Rev. 35
Implementation
Memo
Poverty Level Increases |
- Tax
rebates issued via the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 are exempt for all
programs
- Child
Care
- a. Number
of hours of child care needed for families participating in Flinthills Job
Corps
- b. No
longer waive citizenship requirements for the social service child care
reason.
- Food
Assistance
- Provisions
added for the Electronic Disqualified Recipient System (eDRS)
- Simplified
procedures when expediting food stamps with postponed verifications
- Counties
considered exempt from the ABAWD provisions updated
- Medical
Assistance
- Application Period
- New
form, ES-3108, Appointment of Authorized Medical
Agent for a Minor
- All
individuals eligible for TransMed are now required to provide proof of having
a social security number
- Frail
Elderly (FE) waiver is being changed from the date services actually begin to
the date the customer chooses HCBS services
- HCBS
waiver, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility – Community Based
Alternative (PRTF – CBA), is being implemented effective April 1, 2008
- The treatment of resources in determining the Community Spouse
Resource Allowance (CSRA)
- The
Work Incentive Enhancement is being implemented to increase the earnings
disregard from 40% to 60% for low income families
|
01-01-08
Rev. 34
Implementation
Memo
COLA
Memo |
- Exempting
Refugee Resettlement Program Funds
- Asylees
and trafficking victims are eligible for refugee benefits
- Medical
Assistance
- COLA
Mass Change
- Changes
in costs related to Medicare Part D
- Autism
Waiver (HCBS/AU)
|
10-01-07
Rev. 33
Implementation
Memo |
- APS
changes to numerous sections for consistency and procedural guidance
- Child
Care
- EM (Non-TAF) Child Care: KBOR
Waiver Program is now the Kansas Foster Child Educational Assistance Act or
Foster Care Tuition Waiver Program
- Priorities for Child Care Services: removing information about establishing a child care waiting list and
replacing it with priorities for child care services
- Food
Assistance
- Work
exemption for secondary student no longer excludes pregnant or parenting 17-
or 18-year-olds
- Annual
adjustments: Includes increase in TS amount
- LIEAP
FPL guidelines
- Medical
Assistance
- LTC
Partnership
- Foster
care maintenance recipients and children receiving adoption support payments are
exempted from citizenship and identity verification requirements
- Clarification
of the length of the reasonable opportunity period
|
07-01-07
Rev. 32
Implementation
Memo |
- Re-entry from state correctional facilities
application process
- Child Care
- Central office approval no longer needed for
authorization of special purpose child care plans and special needs child
care
- KACCRRA reorganization
- Funeral Assistance benefit increase
- General Assistance Reintegration
- Clarification
of the intent of what population in the Larned Correctional Mental Health
Facility are eligible to participate
- Clarification
of what constitutes cooperation in pursuing Social Security Disability
application
- Medical
Assistance
- WORK
program implementation
- Changes
to the Working Healthy program
- Contract
with Health Management Systems, Inc. to provide support to the Estate
Recovery Unit
- Transfer
of Property divisor change
- Institutional
protected income level increases
- Psychiatric
Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF) implementation
- Persons
diagnosed with a terminal illness who qualify for hospice care and
individuals in a coma or persistent vegetative state are exempt from CARE
- Modification
of the TAF work exemption of caring for a young child from one year to six
months of age
- Expansion
of the FS E & T services into Shawnee county
|
05-01-07
Rev. 31
Implementation
Memo
Poverty Level Increases |
- All
Programs
- Safe
at Home program
- Annuities
will be treated the same for all programs.
- Senior Community
Services Employment Program (SCSEP)
- Updates
on the counties that are exempt from the ABAWD provisions
- Medical
Assistance
- The
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) mandates several changes to long term
care programs
- Resource
standards for Medicare Part D Subsidy
- Exemption
for persons receiving Social Security Disability benefits from citizenship
and identity verification requirements.
- Changes
in the transfer of property provisions
- Treatment
of annuities
- Ownership
interest in a life estate
- Promissory Notes,
Loans, Mortgages and Contract Sales
- Contracts For
Care
- HCBS Changes
- Reasonable
Opportunity Period Extension
- Releases of
Information
- Successful
Families
- Work Experience
security clearance
- The Community Service Worksite Agreement modified
|
01-01-07
Rev. 30
Implementation
Memo
COLA
Memo |
- All
Programs
- Revised
Applications
- Kansas
Investments Developing Scholars (K.I.D.S.) Match Grant Program exempt
- Claims
under $125 or less
- Adult
Protective Services
- Confirmed
Findings and Case Decisions
- Inability to Complete
Investigation
- The
agency only needs to schedule one interview at the time of application for
cash and food assistance
- Child
Care
- Care
plans will no longer be mailed to child care providers
- Type of
Child Care
- Assistance
Planning for the Child Care Program
- Grandparents
as Caregivers implementation
- LIEAP
FPL guidelines
- Medical Assistance
- Citizenship
and Identity Verification
- Medicare
Part D -Prescription
Drug Coverage
- Working Healthy
Premiums
- Breast and
Cervical Cancer
- SOBRA
update
- Program of
All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)>
- COLA Mass
Change
- Level Of Care/CARE
|
10-01-06
Rev. 29
Implementation
Memo |
- Removal
of the MO child care subtype
- Food
Assistance
- Adjustments
to the Food Assistance Program: Increasing are the standard deduction amounts, the excess shelter
deduction, the gross and net income limits, and the maximum allotment amounts
- Household
Composition
- Acting on
Reported Changes in Shelter Costs
- Interim
Report
- General
Assistance
- Removes
reference to spousal caregivers as an eligible recipient of General
Assistance benefits
- KLS
referrals will now be made solely by the PMDT
- New
processes for verifying that the consumer has a qualifying disability
- General
Assistance Reintegration (GA RN) discharge planning process
- Real
and Personal Property for General Assistance have been changed to match those
for Medical Programs
- Hardship
status only when a consumer has an active Social Security application pending
or on appeal at the time they reach the 24 month time limit
- Medicaid
and General Assistance/Medikan
- Presumptive
Medical Disability
- Citizenship
and Identity Verification
- Successful
Families
- Work/Self
Sufficiency Requirement
- Engagement using the Work
Readiness Screening
- Food Stamp
E&T Participation
- Work
Readiness screening
- Assessment
Process
- Work
Component Monitoring and Verification Requirements
- Vocational
Education/Job Skills Training/Education Directly Related to
Employment/Attendance at Secondary School Review and Authorization Guidelines
- Components
are available in Kansas
- Self-employment
hours to count for federal work participation reporting
- Work
Experience: work site assignment hours
tied to cash and FS benefits; Community Service/Work Experience Assignment
and Site Report now available to report attendance on a work site
- On-the-Job Training definition modified to include Job Retention Case Management
- Supervised
Community Service
- Modification
of Job Skills Training definition
- ABE
and ESL activities are being included in the Education Directly Related to
Employment definition
- Satisfactory
Attendance at Secondary School or in a GED Program
- Work
Experience Reimbursement Allowance replaced by the Behavior Incentive
Allowance (BI)
- TAF
- TAF
adults are no longer covered under the Kansas Legal Services (KLS)
- Agency
Protocol Prior to Terminating TAF Cash Case Due to the 60 Month Time Limit
- Non-Cooperation
When in Hardship Status
- TAF and
Food Assistance: Minimum
two-month penalty period removed for 2nd and subsequent penalties for both
work program and CSE program non-compliance
|
07-01-06
Rev. 28
Implementation
Memo (Additional
Citizenship implementation) |
- Persons
with a drug-related felony will now be allowed to participate in the TAF, GA
and food stamp programs
- Medical
Assistance
- The
Kansas Health Policy Authority (KHPA) is established
- Verification
of Citizenship and Identity
- Medicare
Part D Auto Enrollment
- LTC Income Standard
|
05-01-06
Rev. 27
Implementation
Memo
Poverty Level Increases |
- Child
Care
- Poverty
level guidelines for child care
- Child
care overpayments may be established by using a monthly benefit reduction
- Include
expunged child care benefits in reducing the amount of a child care
overpayment claim
- Allow
approval of an in-home provider request before the client’s FEIN has been
verified with a hard copy
- Able-bodied
Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD) county exemptions
- Medical
Assistance
- Fair
Hearing Process
- Poverty Level Changes
|
01-01-06
Rev. 26
Implementation
Memo (Medical
Program Changes)
COMA
Memo |
- Guardianships
and conservatorships in a treatment facility or nursing facility
- Child
Care
- Situations
in which using the Social Services child care subtype is appropriate
- More
specific instructions regarding allowable training and college activities
- Required
to make a change in family share allowing for timely and adequate notice
based on ANY change in income reported by the household
- Food
Assistance
- New
fixed 36-month ABAWD eligibility period is beginning January 1, 2006 and
ending December 31, 2008
- Restoring
aged-off benefits
- Timely
processing clarification
- Clarification
of what is considered a complete IR and determining IR due date
- LIEAP
- Self-payment
requirement
- COLA
increase
- Medical
Assistance
- OLA
mass change
- Medicare
Part D
- Medicare
Part D Subsidy
- Review
extensions an option for certain Medicaid beneficiaries
- Treatment
of transfers for certain relatives and close friends
|
10-01-05
Rev. 25
ERRATA
Implementation
Memo |
- Market
value of real property in Kansas is to be initially determined using the
State appraised market value for the current tax year
- Exempting
Veterans Educational Income
- For
cash and food assistance, an application is not required if the household
provides the information or completes the interview in the 30 days following
the end of the review period
- Disaster
unemployment benefits as exempt income
- Voluntary
child support considered as child support for budgeting purposes
- Addition
of a household member prior to application processing
- Verification
of earned income, including reductions and loss of earned income must be
obtained at the time a change is reported
- Adult
Protective Services
- Reasonable
Efforts to Determine Safety
- Limited
English Proficiency (LEP) to meet federal requirements
- Continuum
of Interventions list corrected and shortened
- Relatives
to receive TAF cash assistance during the interim period between the time a
foster child is placed in relative care and the date the relative receives
foster care payments for that child(ren)
- Modifying the review period in one
program to match another
- Food Assistance
- Annual
adjustments to the Food Stamp Program. Increasing are: the standard deduction
amounts for household sizes of 5, and 6 or more; the excess shelter
deduction; the gross and net income limits; and the maximum allotment amounts
- Dependent
Care Expenses: out-of-pocket expenses not covered by the EBT Child Care
account
- One Time
Medical Expenses
- Verification
of Shelter Expenses When a Change is Reported
- Interim Report forms with
questions not answered or marked N/A
|
09-01-05
Rev. 24
Implementation
Memo |
EBT Child Care
Vision Card Pilot effective September 1, 2005 |
07-01-05
Rev. 23
|
- Adult Protective Services
- Time in Which to Conduct an APS Investigation
- Investigations in SRS Institutions
- Medical Assistance
- Medicare Advantage program and
Medicare Part D
- Responsibility for Medical
Assistance divided among KHPA, KHPF, SRS, and Department on Aging
|
05-01-05
Rev. 22
Implementation
Memo
Poverty Level Increases |
- Multiple
Programs
- Child
Care and Medical Assistance: New poverty level guidelines have been published
by the Department of Health and Human Services
- Food
Assistance and Child Care: Averaging Child Support Income
and Counting Child Support Arrearage Payments
- Legal
impediment
- Adult Protective
Services
- Instructions
for CFS to screen out reports of abuse or neglect for children 18 and older
who are in SRS custody
- Screening
Reports
- When
the parent who fails to cooperate with CSE is a minor, only the minor parent
will be ineligible for cash assistance
- Mandatory
filing unit for a two-person GA case can only consist of the individual and
spouse
- ABAWD
Labor Surplus Areas
- Medical
Assistance
- Poverty
Level Changes
- Medically
Needy Base Periods
- Long Term
Care Payments: Head Injury Rehabilitation and Level VI Facilities, General
Hospital Payments, Medikan
- LTC
Insurance
- Work
Programs
- Exceptions
to eligibility for 12 months of work program services following the loss of
cash assistance
- Removal
of limitations to FS E & T services
|
01-01-05
Rev. 21
Implementation
Memo
COLA
Memo |
- Multiple
Programs
- Victims of Severe
Forms of Trafficking
- SSI Lump Sum
- Adding New
Household Member to a Pending Application
- KPERS 13th Check
- Applications
considered filed when received at an SRS Service Center or HealthWave office
for Medicaid/HW
- Screening Reports
for APS
- Cash
Assistance
- GA
applicants shall be referred immediately to KLS, even before the application
is approved
- Who May
File: Adults who are not caretaker
relatives filing for a minor MFU member
- Agency Protocol
Prior to Terminating TAF Cash Case Due to the 60-Month Time Limit
- Proration
Following a Sanction
- Child Care
- IE EM (Employed
Income Eligible) Child Care for post secondary education to be completed in 6
months
- Establishing a
Waiting List
- Child Care Plan
Hours
- Kansas Early Head
Start (KEHS)
- Child Care
Providers
- Out-of-Home
Relative provider rates reduced to 65%
- Drop-in
Child Care Programs
- Filing In-Home
Provider information
- Purchase
Violations
- Food Assistance
- Certification
Procedures for Shelters for Battered Women
- Food Assistance
Work Related Exemptions
- LIEAP
COLA increase
- Medical
Assistance
- Estate Recovery
- COLA Mass Change
- Working Healthy -
Medically Improved Group
- HCBS Eligibility
and Assistance Planning
- Successful
Families
- Process for OARS
advocates and EES staff cooperation
- Removal
of the WTA payment amount limitation
|
10-01-04
Rev. 20
ERRATA
Implementation
Memo |
- All
Programs
- Definition
of an eligible caretaker is being expanded to include a step-grandparent, a
step-aunt, and a step-uncle
- Non-Cooperation
with Child Support Enforcement (CSE)
- Billed
Medical Expenses (Food Stamps and Medicaid)
- Household
responsibility to report changes between the time of the initial interview
for certification and the date of the notice of approval
- Cash
Assistance
- Minors Acting in Own Behalf in approved
adult-supervised group living arrangements
- Guidelines
requiring EES staff to determine if there is good cause due to domestic
violence for failing to cooperate with work programs or CSE
- Child
Care Assistance
- Employment
criteria for income eligible training/education shall also be waived for
plans approved by the KBOR Waiver Program or Loan Program
- Foster
Care contractor is responsible for child care expenses for all foster care
placement situations
- Child
Care Providers
- Federal
Employer’s Identification Number required for in-home child care providers
- Child Care
Provider Rates
- Provider
Responsibilities
- Food Assistance: Proration
applies immediately after case closure for
FS, except when
information/cooperation or IR is provide in the month following the closure
month
- Medical
Assistance
- Tuberculosis
Coverage
- Contracts
For Care/Services (Life Care Contracts)
- Shared
Property Ownership
- Estate
Recovery Changes
- Expanded
Definition of Estate
- Successful
Families
- WtW
component information removed from KEESM
- Clarification
that 12 months of work program services is available following TAF loss when
adults are not open on KSCARES.
|
07-01-04
Rev. 19
Implementation
Memo |
- All Programs: Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)
- Hardship
Criteria for General Assistance
- Implementation,
as needed, of KEHS grantees to utilize Child Care Subsidy
- Counties
not subject to the ABAWD provisions
- Medical
Assistance
- Increase
in Allowable Irrevocable Burial Plan Limit
- HealthWave
XXI Children Entering a State Hospital
- Medicare
Approved Drug Discount Card
- Discretionary Trusts
|
05-01-04
Rev. 18
Implementation
Memo
Poverty Level Increases |
- 1. Adult Protective
Services
- Response Time
- Name
change from Mental Health Quality Enhancement Coordinator to MH Field Staff
- Accessing Adult
Abuse Registry
- Filing the
Petition for Voluntary, Involuntary and Temporary Guardian/Conservator
- Cash Assistance
- Paternity of
Alleged Father in the Home
- Good Cause for
Failure to Cooperate with CSE
- Hardship for Persons Who Have
Received 60-Months of Cash Assistance in Another State
|
01-01-04
Rev. 17
Errata
COLA
Memo |
- Immediate cash issuance instructions
- Food Assistance
- Changes in the ABAWD Maximum Age Limit
- Eligibility for the Standard Utility Allowance
- Medical Assistance: COLA Mass Change
|
10-01-03
Rev.
16
Implementation
Memo (Additional
Medical Changes) |
- All
Programs
- On-Line Application
- Payments
made to children of women Vietnam veterans born with certain birth defects
are exempt
- Older Americans Act
- Administrative Disqualification Hearing Threshold
- Adult Protective Services
- Statute Revisions
- Contact with The Involved Adult
- Cash Assistance
- Kansas Legal Service Advocacy Project
- "SU" Code Obsolete for Cash Assistance
- Child Care
- Family share payment is
no longer an eligibility factor
- Requirement
of electronic deposit for all provider payments unless good cause can be
given
- Special
purpose payment rates ($7.37 and $7.05) will now be available for any care
setting
- Food
Assistance
- Changes in Food Stamp Verification Requirements
- Non-Citizen Eligibility
- Simplified Reporting
- LIEAP
FPL guidelines
- Medical
Assistance
- MMIS-related
changes
- AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP)
- Kansas Family Medical Assistance Manual
- Work
Programs
- Food Stamp E & T
- Community Service
- Job Readiness Components
- Head Start and Early Head Start
|
07-01-03
Rev.
15
Implementation
Memo |
- Universal Access
- Adult Protective Services
- Legal Base
- Joint investigations
- HIPAA Issues
- Mandated Reporters
- Corrective Action
- Alleged Minor Perpetrators
- Response Time
- Investigation Reports/Data Base
- Income
eligibility threshold for child care subsidy is being changed from 150% to
185% of the federal poverty level
- Food Stamps And Cash Assistance: Changing to change
reporting and prospective budgeting
- General
Assistance: Revision of ES-3151 to
better gather information regarding medical conditions
- Medical
Assistance
- Notice of Privacy Practice
- HCBS and PACE Monthly Income Standard
- Work
Programs: Work Transition Allowance
|
05-01-03
Rev.
14
Errata
Implementation
Memo
Poverty Level Increases |
- All
Programs
- Verification of obligation for dependent care
expenses rather than verification of payment
- Expunged
benefits and claims procedures
- Child
Care and Medical Assistance: New poverty level guidelines have been published
by the Department of Health and Human Services
- Elimination of the Social Security Advocacy
Project for cash programs
- Child Care Program
- Income Guidelines changed due to FPL
- Child Care Plan Termination
- Non-cooperation with CSE
- Income Eligible Training-Employed (IE TC) Child
Care
- Incorrect Benefits
- Food Assistance
- Non-Citizen Eligibility
- Comparable Treatment for Disqualifications
- Medical Assistance
- Bona Fide Effort - Liquid Resources
- Kansas Family Medical Assistance Manual
- NF Level of Care
- Resource Value - Outstanding Checks
- Temporary Care (Planned Brief Stay)
- Transfer of Property
- Working Healthy Prior Medical Premiums
- Impairment Related Work Expenses and Blind Work
Expenses (IRWE/BWE)
- Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
(PACE)
- Work Programs
- Component Review Process
- EBT Payments
- Educational Assistance
- Family Violence Option
- Work Experience
- Self Sufficiency Activities
- Alcohol and Other Drug Assessment and Treatment
(AOD)
|
02-01-03
Rev.
13
|
- Income
eligibility threshold for child care subsidy will change from 185% to 150% of
the federal poverty level
- Medical
Assistance
- HCBS
monthly income standard (also called the protected income level) is reduced
from $716.00 to $645.00
- HealthWave
monthly premium amounts increase
|
01-01-03
Rev.
12
Implementation
Memo
COLA
Memo |
- Food
Assistance
- Major
change to food stamp policy regarding categorical eligibility
- New
36 month eligibility period starts January 1, 2003 and ends December 31,
2005.
- ABAWD
exemption for persons responsible for care of a dependent child
- In
households consisting of a pregnant woman and the father of the unborn, the
father of the unborn is also exempt from the ABAWD provisions.
- TAF
Assistance
- Both
parties must be at least 18 years of age to enter into a common-law marriage
- Temporary
absence policy has been expanded from 90 to 180 days for both children and
caretakers
- Medical
Assistance
- Increased
community spouse income and resource allowance standards under the spousal
impoverishment provisions, minimum and maximum resource allowance, maximum
income allowance
- Elimination
of Partial LMB
- Estate
Recovery claims no longer applicable for recipients of only QMB, LMB or QWD
|
10-01-02
Rev.
11
Implementation
Memo |
- Food
Assistance
- ABAWD
provisions
- Comparable
treatment for disqualifications policy
- Treatment
of the income of persons found ineligible due to the comparable provisions
- 24
month certified households may switch between actual and the SUA at the time
of the mid-point contact
- Standard
deduction determined based on household size
- Resource
limit of $3,000 applies to households in which at least one member is
disabled\
- Food
stamp eligibility restored to legal immigrants who are disabled regardless of
when they entered the country
- Exemption
of Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Act payments
- Drug
related provisions of 2183 take precedence over categorical eligibility
- Medical
ID bracelets and necklaces are not allowable medical expenses for food stamps
- Medical
Assistance: PACE implementation
- Agency
right to recover excess funds from prearranged funeral agreements
- Marshall
and Nemaha counties have been added as counties which offer Food Stamp
Employment and Training
|
07-01-02
Rev.
10
Implementation
Memo |
- Lifetime
limit on receipt of General Assistance/MediKan benefits to 24 months
- Medical
Assistance
- Working
Healthy
- Blind
Work Expenses (BWE) and Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE)
- Physically
Disabled (PD) able to remain on the waiver past the age of 65
- Head
injuries (HI) persons who turn 55 may now remain on the waiver as long as
progress is being made
- Child
Care
- Child
care provider enrollment forms revised and bound into statewide enrollment
packets
- Parent-Provider
Partnership brochure
- In-Home
child care rates and absent time payments
|
05-01-02
Rev.
9
Implementation
Memo
Poverty Level Increases |
- Child
Care and Medical Assistance: New poverty level guidelines have been published
by the Department of Health and Human Services
- Food
Assistance
- Denials
for failure to show for an interview cannot be processed prior to the 30th day following the date of
application
- Treatment
of 401(k) plans
- Medical
Assistance
- Eligibility
determination for persons in an NF MH
- Inclusion
of Level VI facilities in the Child in an Institution (CI) Medical program
- Treatment
for inpatients of free standing psychiatric hospitals between the ages of 21
and 64
- Elimination
of the review requirement for pregnant women
|
01-01-02
Rev.
8
Errata
Implementation
Memo
COLA
Memo |
- Changes
resulting from the Child Care Summit
- Food
assistance households with a 24-month review period will be closed if the Interim
Report Form is not returned within 10 days
- Applicant
Job Search activities are being combined into the Group Job Search and
Individual Job Search component
- LIEAP
incorporated into KEESM
- Medical
Assistance
- Changes
in standards due to the consumer price index increase
- Transfers
of property
- WtW
referrals and funding
|
10-1-01
Rev.
7
Errata
Implementation
Memo |
- Child
Care
- Allow
a child to be eligible for the entire month of the child's 13th birthday
- Child
care plans for up to 12 months
- Child
care plans my coincide with reviews
- Child
care change reporting criteria aligned with other program policies
- Food
Assistance
- Elimination
of monthly reporting and retrospective budgeting for non-TAF related food
stamp households
- Less
restrictive face-to-face interview requirements adopted for food stamps and
the cash programs
- Major
change in the determination of who is considered an ABAWD
- Count
only a pro-rata share of the income of ineligible aliens and ineligible
ABAWDS
- Annual
Federally mandated increases in the Food Stamp Program's maximum benefits,
maximum excess shelter deduction, and gross and net income limits
- Standard
Utility Allowance (SUA) increase
- Less
restrictive face-to-face interview requirements adopted for food stamps and
the cash programs
- Change
to the alien eligibility criteria to ensure that alien trafficking victims
are afforded the access to benefits comparable to the access that is
available to refugees
- Change
to work program component structure
- Removal
of the prohibition of approving college courses directed toward a
baccalaureate degree for TAF clients
- Medical
Assistance
- Breast
and Cervical Cancer coverage
- HealthWave
managed care plan will now occur the day after the day action is taken to
approve coverage
|
07-1-01
Rev.
6
Implementation
Memo |
- Child
Care
- Applicants
for child care are no longer required to provide Social Security numbers
- No
application needed when the household transitions from JO/MO to IE child care
- Child
care for the first 2 months following TAF closure will now be supported under
IE child care with no family share for the first 2 months
- Motor
vehicles will be exempt in determining eligibility for cash and food stamps
- Medical
Assistance
- Elimination
of work related sanctions to the Family Medical program
- Elimination
of the resource test for MA PW, MA AF, MA RE and Family Medical (MA CM)
- Continuous
eligibility period for pregnant women under age 19 has been extended to 12
months
- Persons
eligible under the continuous eligibility provisions shall continue to be
eligible when a loss of contact is experienced
- Elimination
of the period of ineligibility for dropping health insurance coverage
- New
CARE screening exception is also being implemented by the Kansas
Department on Aging
- Work
Programs
- Continuation
of support services, education and training component cost and contracted
employment services for up to 12 months following the closure of a TAF cash
case
- Support
services now available during a minimum two month penalty period
|
05-1-01
Rev.
5
Implementation
Memo
Poverty Level Increases |
- TAF
Assistance
- Allowing
an exemption for adults age 60 or over in two parent TAF cases
- Removing
the child under age one exemption when either a parent or caretaker has
reached the 48th month of TAF cash assistance
- Work
Programs
- Domestic
Violence/Sexual Assault (DV/SA) work component (OARS)
- Education
and training services are available for one year following exit from cash
assistance due to employment
|
01-4-01 |
FY
2001 Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) (part of KEESM now) |
01-1-01
Rev.
4
Implementation
Memo
COLA
Memo |
- Extending
special services allowance to 12 months for TAF clients who lose cash
eligibility due to employment
- Medical
Assistance
- Delinking
Medicaid from the receipt of TAF cash assistance
- Continuation
of coverage under the Family Medical program
- Receipt
of TransMed and Extended Medical not dependent upon the receipt of cash
assistance, but only Family Medical (MA CM) coverage
- Coverage
period for TransMed
- Increases
due to the increase in the consumer price index
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10-1-00
Rev.
3
Implementation
Memo |
- Medical
Assistance
- Individuals
applying for prior medical assistance
- Family
continuous eligibility period, removing/adding a child to a plan (HealthWave,
Poverty Level Medicaid and MA CM),
- SED
waiver changes
- Countable
income from exempted trusts
- Responsibility
for suspending NF payments
- Good
cause for failure to cooperate with CSE for TAF and Child Care
- Food
Assistance: Increase in the Standard
Telephone Allowance
- TAF
Assistance
- Count
months of TAF assistance received by the family toward the 60 months lifetime
limit when the family group contains a disqualified adult
- TAF
participation requirements
- Work
Programs
- Updated
component terminology
- Effective
date of AJS and EAP assignments
- Expanded
eligibility for Welfare-to-Work
- Reporting
requirements for non-monthly reporting households
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05-01-00
Rev.
2
Implementation
Memo
|
- Food
Assistance
- Categorical
eligibility for food stamps
- Work
program exemptions
- Mandate
SASSI testing for work program participants
- Removal
of the requirement for EES staff authorization of NF reserve days
- Addition
of Adult Protective Services material into the KEESM
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01-1-00
Rev.
1
COLA
Memo |
- Medical
Assistance
- Increases
due to the increase in the consumer price index
- Continuous
eligibility
- Newborn Coverage
- Care Assessment Process and Eligibility for
Payment
- Spousal Impoverishment Resource and Income
Standards
- Eligibility for Persons in Medicaid - Approved and
Non-Medicaid Approved Institutions
- Child
Care
- Inclusion
of the TC child care subtype
- When
a child care plan is closed and there is no negative impact on the client
timely and adequate notice is not required
- Termination of Child Care Plans
- Citizenship
requirements may be waived for the SS subtype if needed
- Special Types of Payments
- Work Programs
- Disability Employment Services-TAF(and FS in
Designated Counties)
- Employment Assessment Process-TAF Only
- Welfare to Work (WtW)-TAF Only
- Support Services Specific to TAF Work Program
Participation
- Transportation
allowance may also be used to assist in employment retention
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10-1-99
Implementation
Memo |
KEESM developed by consolidating the Kansas Public Assistance Manual (KPAM), the Kansas Food Stamp Manual (KFSM), and the Kansas Employment Preparation Manual (KEPM)
- Treatment
of self-employment income
- Family
unit policy implemented in the Medicaid poverty level and HealthWave programs
in January has been challenged based on current Medicaid regulations.
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