If any otherwise qualified applicant for, or recipient of old age assistance, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled or payee in the case of aid to dependent children, is or shall become unable to manage the assistance payments, or otherwise fails so to manage, to the extent that deprivation or hazard to such applicant or recipient or others results, or, in the case of aid to dependent children, the payment is not being used for the children, a petition may be filed by the secretary for children and families wherein the applicant or recipient has residence before the district court of that county in the form of a verified written application for the appointment of a personal representative not an employee of the Kansas department for children and families, for the purpose of receiving and managing public assistance payments for any such recipient or payee, which verified application shall allege one or more of the above grounds for the legal appointment of such representative.