States have 6 more months to implement Medicaid work requirement, administration says

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Friday that states can take an additional six months to implement a provision in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law that requires most people enrolled in Medicaid work, participate in community service, or attend an education program at least 80 hours a month. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wrote in a statement that it’s established an “optional hold harmless period” to give state governments more time to update their systems and improve the processes they have in place. “States have made real progress, and they’ve been clear with us about what it takes to get this right for beneficiaries—at scale and for the long term,” Director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services Dan Brillman wrote in the statement. “If the state can use data to show that someone is working or qualifies for an exclusion, that person should not have to track down paperwork to prove it.

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