Wichita ? Acknowledging that full payment is unlikely, a federal judge has ordered a couple convicted of defrauding and abusing disabled residents in the group home they operated to make restitution of nearly $535,000.

Arlan Kaufman, 69, and his wife, Linda, 62, are imprisoned after their convictions in November on charges including health care fraud, Medicare fraud, forced labor and holding clients in involuntary servitude at their treatment center in Newton. Arlan Kaufman is serving a 30-year sentence, his wife seven years.

The couple, married 40 years, operated their Kaufman House Residential Treatment Center from 1980 until they were arrested in 2004. Arlan Kaufman was a social worker with a doctoral degree, and his wife was a nurse.

U.S. District Judge Monti Belot, who issued the restitution order Tuesday, said that based on trial evidence, “virtually every person who ever resided at Kaufman House would qualify as a victim.”

But his order involved only those who made a claim for restitution – six former residents, Mennonite Mutual Aid, which insured one of them, and Medicare.

Belot said he did not doubt the assertion that the Kaufmans’ funds are exhausted, or nearly so, but noted that real estate they own is subject to forfeiture in a separate proceeding still in progress.