{"id":25845,"date":"2026-04-16T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25845"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:03:27","slug":"new-federal-medicaid-rules-require-one-month-of-work-some-states-demand-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25845","title":{"rendered":"New Federal Medicaid Rules Require One Month of Work. Some States Demand More."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Samantha Liss for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions of people who apply for Medicaid in the coming years will have to prove they\u2019ve been working, going to school, or volunteering for at least a month before they can gain or retain health insurance through the government program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Republican lawmakers in some states think the new rules \u2014 part of the GOP\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed last July by President Donald Trump \u2014 don\u2019t go far enough.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/federal-medicaid-work-rules-one-three-months-indiana-missouri\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/federal-medicaid-work-rules-one-three-months-indiana-missouri\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Samantha Liss for KFF Health News) Millions of people who apply for Medicaid in the coming years will have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,16],"tags":[238,67,1752],"class_list":["post-25845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance","category-medicaid","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicaid","tag-medicaid-work-requirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25846,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25845\/revisions\/25846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}