Kansas is delaying a planned consolidation of seven programs providing in-home services for the disabled and elderly for a few months until spring 2017, and a key legislator said Tuesday that slowing the project down is “doing the right thing.”
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has pursued the “integration” since last year, arguing it would deliver services more efficiently and give participants access to more programs. But some legislators and advocates for the disabled have worried that Brownback’s administration is moving too quickly and the changes would reduce ...