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Disability benefits in Kansas

Social Security rules are the same in every state. This page covers what is different in Kansas: who decides your claim, state money added to SSI, Medicaid, hearings and free help.

You have 60 days to appeal each decision, plus 5 days for mail.

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Who decides your claim in Kansas?

Disability Determination Services (DDS)

This state office decides disability and blindness for Social Security on most SSDI and SSI claims filed or reviewed in Kansas. It also reviews whether people who get benefits are still eligible, holds hearings when benefits are stopped for medical reasons, and decides disability for some Medicaid applications.

Part of
Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), Rehabilitation Services
Phone
1-833-765-2003 (DCF Customer Service; TTY 1-785-296-1491)

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Does Kansas add money to SSI?

State Supplemental Payment Program (SSPP)

If you get SSI and live in a Medicaid-approved nursing facility or other institution in Kansas, Social Security lowers your SSI. Kansas pays a small extra monthly cash amount to people in this situation who are 18 or older and have full Medicaid.

Paid by: the state

Who
SSI recipient age 18 or older in a Medicaid-approved Kansas institution (such as a nursing facility) with a reduced SSI payment
How to apply
There is no application. The state finds eligible people from Social Security records and adds them automatically.
Contact
Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), KanCare
https://www.kancare.ks.gov/

Medicaid in Kansas

Kansas's Medicaid program is called KanCare. Kansas makes its own Medicaid decisions. Getting SSI does not sign you up for KanCare by itself. You must apply to KanCare separately. The state uses the same rules as SSI to decide.

Program
KanCare
Medicaid agency
Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), Division of Health Care Finance - KanCare
https://www.kancare.ks.gov/

Medicaid for working people with disabilities: Working Healthy

Working Healthy is Kansas's Medicaid Buy-In program. It lets people with disabilities keep KanCare while they work. You can earn up to 300% of the federal poverty level and keep coverage. If you earn at least 100% of the poverty level, you pay a monthly premium based on your income.

https://www.kancare.ks.gov/members/benefits-services/working-healthy/

State disability and paid leave in Kansas

Kansas has no state-run short-term disability or paid medical leave program listed here.

Hearing offices and federal court in Kansas

2 hearing offices serve Kansas. Hearing office locator (Social Security)

Topeka, KS Hearing Office

Hearing office

Address
Suite A, 3712 SW Burlingame, Topeka, KS 66609
Fax
(833) 964-2263

Wichita, KS Hearing Office

Hearing office

Address
3207 N. Cypress Street, Wichita, KS 67226
Fax
(833) 748-0027

Federal district court

If you appeal to federal court, you file in the district court that covers your county.

U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Court help for people without a lawyer

Counties covered (105)
  • Allen
  • Anderson
  • Atchison
  • Barber
  • Barton
  • Bourbon
  • Brown
  • Butler
  • Chase
  • Chautauqua
  • Cherokee
  • Cheyenne
  • Clark
  • Clay
  • Cloud
  • Coffey
  • Comanche
  • Cowley
  • Crawford
  • Decatur
  • Dickinson
  • Doniphan
  • Douglas
  • Edwards
  • Elk
  • Ellis
  • Ellsworth
  • Finney
  • Ford
  • Franklin
  • Geary
  • Gove
  • Graham
  • Grant
  • Gray
  • Greeley
  • Greenwood
  • Hamilton
  • Harper
  • Harvey
  • Haskell
  • Hodgeman
  • Jackson
  • Jefferson
  • Jewell
  • Johnson
  • Kearny
  • Kingman
  • Kiowa
  • Labette
  • Lane
  • Leavenworth
  • Lincoln
  • Linn
  • Logan
  • Lyon
  • McPherson
  • Marion
  • Marshall
  • Meade
  • Miami
  • Mitchell
  • Montgomery
  • Morris
  • Morton
  • Nemaha
  • Neosho
  • Ness
  • Norton
  • Osage
  • Osborne
  • Ottawa
  • Pawnee
  • Phillips
  • Pottawatomie
  • Pratt
  • Rawlins
  • Reno
  • Republic
  • Rice
  • Riley
  • Rooks
  • Rush
  • Russell
  • Saline
  • Scott
  • Sedgwick
  • Seward
  • Shawnee
  • Sheridan
  • Sherman
  • Smith
  • Stafford
  • Stanton
  • Stevens
  • Sumner
  • Thomas
  • Trego
  • Wabaunsee
  • Wallace
  • Washington
  • Wichita
  • Wilson
  • Woodson
  • Wyandotte

Free help in Kansas

Protection & Advocacy agency (P&A)

Disability Rights Center of Kansas

Phone
785-273-9661 (toll-free 877-776-1541)

Legal aid

Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)

Kansas DCF Rehabilitation Services (Vocational Rehabilitation)

Phone
1-866-213-9079 (toll-free customer service line)

ABLE savings account

Kansas ABLE Savings Plan

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Good to know in Kansas

  • In Kansas, getting SSI does not give you KanCare (Medicaid) by itself. Kansas makes its own Medicaid decisions, so you must apply to KanCare separately. (POMS SI 01715.010)
  • Kansas pays a small state supplement only to SSI recipients who live in Medicaid-approved nursing facilities or other institutions. There is no application; the state adds people automatically. (KHPA Policy Memo 2007-05-01; K.S.A. 39-972)
  • Kansas's DDS also decides disability for Medicaid applicants who do not meet SSI's money rules. (Kansas DCF)

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Last checked: November 2026