SNAP Work Requirements in Kansas

Check if the time limit applies to you Count your months

When the new rules started in Kansas

DCF put the H.R. 1 changes in place on November 1, 2025 and notified affected households.

Waived areas in Kansas

No part of Kansas is waived.

That means the time limit can apply anywhere in the state to adults who are not exempt and do not meet the 80-hour rule.

Your 36-month period

Kansas uses one statewide period for everyone: October 2025 through September 2028 (Kansas Economic and Employment Services Manual 2520).

You can get Food Assistance for only 3 countable months in that period unless you meet the 80-hour rule or are exempt. The time limit calculator helps you count.

How to meet and report the 80 hours

Job and training program: SNAP Employment and Training (E&T)

You need 20 hours a week (averaged monthly) of paid, in-kind or volunteer work, or an approved program, and you must prove your hours. Kansas also has its own rule: adults 18 to 59 with no dependents on the case who work under 30 hours a week must do 30 hours a week of SNAP E&T. Report changes through the Self-Service Portal, by mail, fax, in person, or by phone. E&T line: 1-833-765-2003.

Across all states, paid work, work for goods or services, volunteering, workfare and approved training count, and you can combine them. See what counts as work.

More Kansas details

• Missing required E&T brings separate penalties of 3 months, then 6 months, then 1 year.
• Months you used in another state during the Kansas period count against your 3 months.

Contact

• Agency: Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF)
• Online account: DCF Self-Service Portal
• Phone: 1-888-369-4777

Federal rules that apply in Kansas

• Covered: adults 18 through 64 who can work, with no child under 14 in their SNAP household.
• Exempt: pregnancy; a health condition that keeps you from working; American Indian, Alaska Native, Urban Indian or California Indian; or being excused from the general work rules (caring for a child under 6 or a disabled person, unemployment benefits, 30 hours a week or $217.50 a week, half-time school, drug or alcohol treatment, TANF work rules). See all exemptions.
• Veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and former foster youth are no longer automatically exempt.
• If you lose SNAP, you can get it back by doing 80 hours in 30 days or becoming exempt. You can also ask for a fair hearing. See how to get SNAP back.