News Report | October 7, 2018
The Majority Of Non-Disabled Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries Potentially Meet Proposed Work Requirements
Based on historical trends, 89.4% to 98.4% of adult non-disabled Medicaid beneficiaries ages 19 to 64 potentially meet proposed work requirements. Between 1.6% to 10.6% would potentially fail to meet the requirements.
Eleven states have submitted Medicaid waiver applications to implement work requirements. Across these states, from 3.9% to 29.2% of all Medicaid-eligible adults would be subject to (not exempt from) proposed work requirements. Among non-disabled adult beneficiaries, from 21.8% to 54.0% of the adult U.S. Medicaid population would be affected.
These findings were reported in “State-Level . . .