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transaction. No fees are charged for a cash purchase or for cash back received while making a purchase. Clients may also purchase a money order as a cash purchase or as a separate purchase after receiving cash back from the retailer. A Kansas Benefits Card brochure is provided with each Kansas Benefits Card outlining usage, policy and fees associated with the use of the Kansas Benefits Card.

B. Special Provisions

1. Indicate how Kansas intends to treat families moving into the State from another State differently than other families under the program, and if so, how the State intends to treat such families under the program (Section 402(A)(1)(B)(i) of the Social Security Act.

To be eligible for benefits, persons moving to Kansas from another state must have established state residency and will be treated no differently than Kansas residents. They will be eligible for the same benefits and services. Their need and payment standards will be identical to those of other Kansas residents in the same county with the same household size.

2. Indicate whether the State intends to provide assistance under the program to individuals who are not citizens of the United States, and if so, shall include an overview of such assistance (Section 402(A)(1)(B)(ii) of the Social Security Act.

Kansas will provide TANF-funded assistance to all qualified non-citizens per the provisions of section 431 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1641), if they meet all other program eligibility. Non-excepted qualified aliens arriving on or after Aug 22, 1996, are barred from receiving TANF assistance for their first five years in the United States. Once the five-year waiting period has expired, those qualified aliens will be eligible for TANF- funded assistance. Eligible non-citizens will have eligibility and benefits determined in the same manner as citizens.

3. Outline the objective criteria for the delivery of benefits and the determination of eligibility and for fair and equitable treatment, including an explanation of how the State will provide opportunities for recipients who have been adversely affected to be heard in a State administrative or appeal process (Section 402(A)(1)(B)(iii) of the Social Security Act.

Current and former applicants/recipients or other interested persons (including vendors) who are dissatisfied with any action concerning the furnishing or denial of TANF assistance have the right to conciliation, an administrative review, a fair hearing, and a review by the State Appeals Committee. Once those avenues have been exhausted, the matter may be appealed to the district court. The appeal process is detailed below: Eligibility. TANF eligibility is restricted to those families whose resources and countable income do not exceed budgetary standards. In determining countable income, consideration is given to the income of all mandatory filing unit members, including parents, stepparents, and cohabiting partners of the legally- responsible adult in the home and all children of the parents, stepparents and cohabiting partners in the home and their natural or adopted siblings (recipients receiving SSI