Tavares and other researchers found that just 8% of the total Medicaid population is considered “able-bodied” and not working. This group consists largely of women who are very poor and have left the ...

Now that Republicans' big tax-and-spending bill has become law, there will be new bureaucratic hurdles for millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid. The new law contains a provision that in most ...

State officials will implement new federal work requirements for Arkansas' Medicaid expansion program beginning in July through a "soft launch," they said Thursday.

If you're over 65, you qualify for Medicare, a federally funded program that also covers those under 65 with certain disabilities. Medicaid is a state-administered federal health insurance program ...

Medicaid is the public health insurance program that covers adults and children from low-income households as well as people of all ages with disabilities. There are 56 Medicaid programs and all are ...

Understand the upcoming 2026 changes to SNAP and Medicaid from H.R. 1, including new work requirements and eligibility checks that could affect your benefits.

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies. By Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff The authors are covering how new requirements will reshape ...

While families struggle to understand the student loan cuts in Trump’s big tax and budget overhaul, there’s another, less-noticed impact on millions of college students. “The uncertainty is really ...

When President Trump signed a law adding work requirements for some Medicaid recipients, he may have undercut lawmakers in at least 14 states who were designing their own plans, according to health ...

For an opposing viewpoint, read "Work requirements increase bureaucracy more than accountability" by Ben Ritz Medicaid is the government program that is supposed to help the poor afford health care.

Missouri Republicans voted Thursday to advance a plan to add Medicaid work requirements to the state Constitution, hoping to ...