The prospect of a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients is sparking fears. The measure is part of a sweeping ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law June 6 requiring tens of thousands of Iowans on Medicaid to work or lose their health care ...

The real question isn’t whether to link work with Medicaid; it’s how to help more Americans use safety net programs as a ...

As one reader writes, the "old trope of work-or-volunteer remedies" recalls the “welfare queen” stereotype of 40 years ago, ...

Millions are likely to lose health insurance, and there is no credible data that imposing such rules would save money. They ...

Mr. De Liban and Mr. Hawkins are lawyers who successfully sued to stop Arkansas’s Medicaid work requirements. Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program ...

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are increasingly turning to work requirements as part of a wide-ranging effort to slash spending on welfare benefits — extending GOP ...

House Republicans have proposed adding work requirements to Medicaid, the health insurance program serving tens of millions of low-income Americans. Their plan, unveiled Sunday, would, with a few ...

Iowa has a new law that will require tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients to fulfill work requirements or risk losing their health care. But the work requirements won't kick in until the state ...

Some policy experts who study Medicaid, food stamps and other social safety net programs say that there's little evidence that work requirements increase employment, partly because most people who ...

The House version calls for the states, which administer Medicaid within their borders and help pay for the program, to adopt work requirements by the end of 2026. The effect of this policy ...

Among other requirements, the changes require healthy adult Medicaid recipients to work or volunteer at least 20 hours per week and recertify that they’re eligible every three months.