Biden administration nixes Ohio's Medicaid work requirements [View all]

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told the Ohio Department of Medicaid in a 23-page letter that it cannot proceed with its plans to require some people on the health coverage program to work to keep their coverage.

The letter, sent to the state on Tuesday, says that under the Social Security Act, the federal government can permit special programs that go outside the bounds of how Medicaid is set up, as long as they “are likely to promote the statutory objectives of Medicaid.”

Work requirements would not do this because they would likely result in thousands of people losing coverage, the letter states.

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