Friday 5/14: 6am-9pm
Saturday 5/15: 6am – 8pm
Sunday 5/16: Unavailable
The Buy In Deletion Report will be available to eligibility staff on the 14th of each month. The Buy In file will be sent to CMS early on the morning of the 21st. The Buy In Deletion report that is received on 05/14/2021 will include all cases that lost eligibility 03/31/2021.
The removal of the deletion records by Gainwell Technologies will need to be completed by 5:00 PM on 05/20/2021. Any cases that need the deletion removed from the CMS file, will need to have an email sent to the Gainwell Technologies Buy In team no later than 2:00 PM on 05/20/2021 so they can be manually processed by the 5:00 PM deadline. The requests can be sent on a daily basis as the report is worked. Gainwell Technologies cannot guarantee that the manual processing will be completed before the CMS file is sent if the manual deletion requests are received after 2:00 PM on 05/20/2021.
If a deletion was manually removed from the CMS file last month, and the eligibility for that member is still not up to date in the MMIS at the point the deletion file is sent to CMS this month, that deletion will go to CMS even though that member is only listed on the Buy In Deletion report once.
If a new buy in case is being approved on or between 05/14/2021 and 05/20/2021 and qualifies for immediate buy in, please send an email to the buy in team so it can be considered for manual accretion to CMS on the file. The member must be known to the MMIS to be manually added to the buy in file. ksxix-buyin@dxc.com .
Final KDHE Processing Deadlines - Fiscal Year 2022 has been updated and can be found on the KEES Repository under Other Helpful Information.
An Emergency Allotment Issuance for April Food Assistance households will be sent to the EBT provider (FIS) this weekend and available to consumers starting Saturday, 5/22. Starting with the April Emergency Allotment issuance, food assistance households who have already been receiving the max allotment before Emergency Allotment began or those whose Emergency allotments were less than $95 will receive an increased benefit of $95 per month. Emergency allotment payments will not change for household who had been receiving Emergency Allotment benefits of $95 or more per month. The staggered issuance chart is below for your reference.
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If the clients last name starts with: |
The consumer will get their benefits after 6:00am on the: |
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A or B C or D E, F, or G H, I or J K or L M N, O, P, Q or R S T, U or V W, X, Y or Z |
5/22/2021 5/23/2021 5/24/2021 5/25/2021 5/26/2021 5/27/2021 5/28/2021 5/29/2021 5/30/2021 5/31/2021 |
The Child Care Benefit Table is being updated to allow eligibility for income up to 250% of the FPL for households up to 7 and 85% of the SMI for households of 7 and higher, effective July 1, 2021 within KEES. Therefore, cases processed after 5/17 will have the new income levels applied beginning with July benefits. On 05/22 the Family Plan Income Limits Batch will apply the updates to all Active Family Plans, recalculate the Family Plan, run EDBC and send the appropriate notices. Overridden Family Plans will be skipped for each overridden month however a notice will still be sent to the families.
Timeline of Events:
5/15: KEES has been updated with the table changes effective 7/1/2021. Note: The changes will not affect Family Shares already attached to existing Family Plans. This will occur with the federal poverty guideline batch process. New plans written after this date will reflect the new amounts.
5/20: Come-up Month becomes available. Any cases processed for July benefits will have the table changes applied.
The weekend of 5/21: Family Plan Income Limits – Active family plans, recalculate family plan, EDBC and send appropriate notices.
Overridden Family Plans will be skipped for each month that is overridden. EDBC will run and a NOA will be sent.
5/24: Regular Child Care EDBC – Run any Child Care program that has not yet had July EDBC ran.
DCF Processing Deadlines – Year 2021 have been updated and can be found on the DCF Intranet under Policy and Procedures and in the KEES Non-Medical User Manual.
Call Center Phone Number: 844-723-5337
KEES Help Desk Email: KEES.HelpDesk@ks.gov
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