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Job Opportunities at Kansas Legal Services


LEGAL SECRETARY Kansas Legal Services seeks a full-time legal secretary in our administrative office in Overland Park. Duties include: Oversee the entry and maintenance of client and case information, data entry, preparing corresponde...

Denials from Kansas Department for Children and Families Can Be Appealed


DENIED? If you received a denial notice from the Department for Children and Families, you can appeal. What should you appeal? You were denied benefits and: A notice that you were overpaid benefits, when you reported future income, lik...

KLS Legal Assistance for Veterans


Kansas Legal Services (KLS) provides legal assistance for Veterans who are homeless or at-risk for homelessness. Legal assistance addresses the top seven areas identified by Veterans in the Veterans’ CHALENG survey as being their top legal problem...

Trapped, she can’t move without risking homelessness


By Mina Lukas, Reprinted Special to the Wichita Eagle December 27, 2023 “Why don’t you just move?” It’s a question I hear a lot. I live in an unsafe apartment building with an abusive landlord. Sometimes the question is spoken aloud,...

Infusion of state funding chips away at Kansas’ significant affordable housing shortage


by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector Dec. 26, 2023 https://lawrencekstimes.com/2023/12/26/ks-funding-housing-crisis/ Legislature earmarks $62 million following study identifying statewide gaps TOPEKA — Mollea Wainscott and Matt Gillam grappl...

KLS Helping Kansans Get Their Driver’s Licenses Reinstated


By Micah Tempel, Director, Suspended to Reinstated Project, KLS. More than 200,000 Kansans have a suspended driver’s license, and the vast majority of these suspensions — 150,000 — have nothing to do with dangerous driving or posing a public safet...

Payday lenders aim to evade federal probes as borrowers plead for help


A powerful set of financial firms have delayed federal investigations or punishments into their allegedly predatory lending practices, as they seize on an industry-led lawsuit challenging the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. By ...

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