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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:
(Above) Matt Keenan is the executive director of Kansas Legal Services, a legal aid organization that served more than 18,000 Kansans in 2023, including a veteran who needed help obtaining disability benefits.
This affidavit can be filed pre or post judgment in a court action.
Are you eligible for food stamps, child care subsidy, health insurance from the government?
To apply for SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits, TANF (cash assistance), Child Care Subsidy, find the application here. You do not need to be eligible for or want all these benefits. One application is considered for all these programs.
Understanding Emancipation Laws in Kansas: What You Need to Know
What is Emancipation?
Emancipation means you are legally separated from your parents or guardian and do not have to live with them.
The law in Kansas emancipates you when you are 18 years old.
Having a baby does not make you legally emancipated.
Your parents cannot emancipate you so they are no longer legally responsible for financially providing for you.
As you may know, Kansas Legal Services is part of the national legal aid movement that was born in the War on Poverty in the early 1960s. KLS grew out of the movement that believed everyone deserved equal access to justice, without regard to their ability to pay for services.
The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) has a film about the history of civil legal aid in the United States on their website.
Individuals released from incarceration may be eligible for Social Security retirement, survivors, or disability benefits if you have worked or paid into Social Security enough years or Supplemental Security Income benefits if you are 65 or older, or are blind, or have a disability and have little or no income and resources.
The following information is for people who got a Notice of Overpayment from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
The information is from a website called Learn the Law.org that is information put together by Statewide Legal Services, CTLawHelp.org and Center for Computer-Assisted Learning (CALI) to help people with common legal aid problems.
By Rafael Garcia
Topeka Capital Journal - cjonline July 24, 2023
After the end of a pandemic waiver that allowed all children in the U.S. to eat free school lunches, many Kansas schools are finding a way to keep feeding all of their students — all for free.
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Selected filters:
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:
(Above) Matt Keenan is the executive director of Kansas Legal Services, a legal aid organization that served more than 18,000 Kansans in 2023, including a veteran who needed help obtaining disability benefits.
This affidavit can be filed pre or post judgment in a court action.
Are you eligible for food stamps, child care subsidy, health insurance from the government?
To apply for SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits, TANF (cash assistance), Child Care Subsidy, find the application here. You do not need to be eligible for or want all these benefits. One application is considered for all these programs.
Understanding Emancipation Laws in Kansas: What You Need to Know
What is Emancipation?
Emancipation means you are legally separated from your parents or guardian and do not have to live with them.
The law in Kansas emancipates you when you are 18 years old.
Having a baby does not make you legally emancipated.
Your parents cannot emancipate you so they are no longer legally responsible for financially providing for you.
As you may know, Kansas Legal Services is part of the national legal aid movement that was born in the War on Poverty in the early 1960s. KLS grew out of the movement that believed everyone deserved equal access to justice, without regard to their ability to pay for services.
The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) has a film about the history of civil legal aid in the United States on their website.
Individuals released from incarceration may be eligible for Social Security retirement, survivors, or disability benefits if you have worked or paid into Social Security enough years or Supplemental Security Income benefits if you are 65 or older, or are blind, or have a disability and have little or no income and resources.
The following information is for people who got a Notice of Overpayment from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
The information is from a website called Learn the Law.org that is information put together by Statewide Legal Services, CTLawHelp.org and Center for Computer-Assisted Learning (CALI) to help people with common legal aid problems.
By Rafael Garcia
Topeka Capital Journal - cjonline July 24, 2023
After the end of a pandemic waiver that allowed all children in the U.S. to eat free school lunches, many Kansas schools are finding a way to keep feeding all of their students — all for free.
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