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Right here’s what we’re watching in Washington:
New Assets Present How Medicaid Work Necessities Endanger Well being Look after Older Adults and Folks with Disabilities
The funds reconciliation invoice (H.R. 1) advancing by means of the Senate contains the most important cuts to Medicaid in historical past. One notably harmful lower is new work necessities for many Medicaid growth enrollees aged 19–64. The crimson tape is designed to take Medicaid protection from over 5 million individuals. The exemptions alleged to guard disabled people fall woefully quick. As this new weblog from Justice in Getting older and the Nationwide Well being Regulation Program (NHeLP) highlights, forcing individuals with disabilities to repeatedly “show” their incapacity is an insurmountable feat that may result in protection losses.
A brand new UMass Boston evaluation tasks roughly 1.8 million older adults aged 50–64 would lose Medicaid protection solely due to work necessities. Compounding the difficulty, as new analysis from the City Institute exhibits, is the truth that greater than half of Medicaid growth enrollees with unstable employment reside with an older grownup age 65 or older, a toddler beneath 18, or a disabled member of the family—highlighting how caregiving obligations restrict work functionality. These people with unstable employment additionally expertise larger charges of continual circumstances or incapacity in comparison with Medicaid growth enrollees with steady employment.
Try Justice in Getting older’s Medicaid Protection assets, and be part of us for a webinar on Tuesday, June seventeenth to study extra about how the cuts to Medicaid and Medicare in H.R. 1 would hurt older adults and how you can take motion.
HUD to Suggest Time Limits, Work Necessities for Housing Help
Current reporting signifies that the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement (HUD) is planning a proposed rule to impose cut-off dates and work necessities in HUD’s rental help applications. This information follows the discharge of the President’s Fiscal Yr 2026 funds request for Congress, which features a proposal to implement two-year cut-off dates for “non-elderly, non-disabled residents” receiving HUD rental help.
No matter any exemptions, cut-off dates and work necessities would take away housing help from older adults and folks with disabilities. Justice in Getting older is urging Congress to reject the President’s request for cut-off dates and can proceed to watch developments in HUD rulemaking.
Study extra about the significance of federal rental help for older adults.
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