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US gives states another 6 months before they have to remove people from Medicaid for not working
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President Donald Trump’s administration told states Friday that they can wait until July before removing people from Medicaid for failing to meet a work requirement....
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Hospitals are reportedly panicking over new Medicaid work requirements in January after President Trump slashed $1 trillion in funding for the program in 2025 -- and some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing for a two-year delay of the reforms.
The Trump administration will let states delay a requirement that some people in the Medicaid program work, volunteer or go to school to get health insurance, pausing a controversial policy that would throw millions of people’s health coverage into question.
The Trump administration announced a six-month delay Friday in enforcing the Medicaid work requirements that were scheduled to take effect in January. Why it matters: The announcement pauses a set of rules that state officials have warned they're not ready to handle — and that could cause millions o…
President Donald Trump’s administration told states Friday that they can wait until July before removing people from Medicaid for failing to meet a work requirement....
The Trump administration is delaying the implementation of controversial Medicaid work requirements, giving states an extra six months to prepare. The work requirements, which Republicans established in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year, will still technically go into effect Jan. 1.
Arkansas officials still plan to enforce a new work requirement for many Medicaid expansion enrollees starting Jan. 1, despite a Trump administration announcement Friday that states may delay enforcement of the mandate by six months.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will allow states to delay enforcement of new rules requiring low-income adults to work in order to receive Medicaid coverage, according to a letter it sent Friday to state Medicaid directors.
The administration clarified that while states still have the option to take action at the beginning of the year, they won't have to kick anyone off or deny coverage for failure to meet the requirement until July 1.
States will not be forced to implement new Medicaid work requirements until mid-2027, the administration announced Friday. The new rules, which were set to kick in on January 1st, mandate that many Medicaid recipients fill out burdensome new paperwork about their employment, while “medically frail” …
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