Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 39-713d

  • Assistance: includes such items or functions as the giving or providing of money, food assistance, food, clothing, shelter, medicine or other materials, the giving of any service, including instructive or scientific. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Recipient: means a person who has received assistance under the terms of this act. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
  • Secretary: means the secretary for children and families, unless otherwise specified. See Kansas Statutes 39-702

(a) The secretary, on the death of a recipient of assistance, if the estate of the deceased or other available resources are insufficient to pay the decedent‘s funeral and burial expenses, may pay funeral and cemetery expenses in amounts which shall not be more than the maximum amounts fixed for such purposes by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary.

(b) Whenever a cemetery lot has been purchased or acquired for a recipient of assistance, either before or after death, and such cemetery lot was not purchased or acquired with public funds, the cost of such cemetery lot shall not be deducted from the funeral expenses authorized by this section.