Medicaid Work Requirement Could Mean Loss of Coverage for More than 100,000 in Louisiana

How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time

The reconciliation bill passed by the United States House of Representatives imposes community engagement requirements for childless non-disabled Medicaid recipients age 19–64, starting in 2027. The requirement can be met by spending 80 hours in at least some months either working, going to school, participating in a work program, or doing community service. In a previous analysis, I found that between 40 percent and 56 percent of childless non-…

Medicaid work requirements are the real 'fraud and abuse'

Let's be clear: When it comes to Medicaid, work requirements are indeed funding cuts disguised as policy. The vast majority of able-bodied adults on Medicaid are already working, often juggling multiple low-wage jobs that don't offer health insurance.

A million people in the Midwest could lose Medicaid under federal work requirements

Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz at an event in Indiana on April 15, 2025.(Benjamin Thorp / WFYI News)Up to 1 million low income and disabled people across the Midwest could lose their Medicaid health insurance coverage, according to a new analysis. That's because federal lawmakers are considering adding Medicaid work requirements, which means people would have to prove they work, volunteer, or go t…

House Republicans' Medicaid work requirements could see millions kicked off benefit rolls

House Republicans' proposal to implement stricter Medicaid work requirements is designed to strip out waste, fraud and abuse from the widely used healthcare program, but the changes could see millions of Americans booted from their benefits in the process. The Republican-controlled Congress and the White House are mulling work requirements for able-bodied, childless adults between the ages of 18 and 64. People fitting those criteria would be req…

Medicaid work requirement could mean loss of coverage for more than 100,000 in Louisiana

Tucked inside the “big, beautiful bill” recently advanced by the U.S. House is a first-ever federal work requirement for Medicaid recipients. Starting at the end of 2026, the legislation would require that most childless adults document 80 hours a month…

Reporting work requirements are bad at encouraging work, good at making people sick and hungry

A “SNAP welcomed here” sign is seen at the entrance to a Big Lots store in Portland, Oregon. (Getty Images)Congress wants to make work reporting requirements in safety net programs harsher and more pervasive to remove supports from tens of thousands of Mainers and use that money to pay for tax cuts that overwhelmingly go to the wealthy. Maine has been down this road before and saw that work requirements take away help from people who need it and…