#Trump’s New #Medicaid #WorkRequirements Are Here

It’s just cruelty.

On Friday, #Nebraska became the first state to enact Medicaid work requirements, mandatory for states with Medicaid expansion due to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Notably, the state did it 7 months before the deadline.

Now, ~70k adults below the age of 65 in Nebraska who have Medicaid through its expansion could risk having their #HealthInsurance ripped away from them.

#law #HealthInequity
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/trumps-new-medicaid-work-requirements-are-here/

The whole section 8 term limits thing is based on the idea that anyone who needs rental assistance just needs temporary help to “get back on their feet” & it completely overlooks the fact that no amount of time is going to make it so people who work low wage jobs (or elderly or disabled people) will earn 3.5x the rent.

I had to be homeless for years after becoming disabled because my disability payment was not 3 1/2 times the rent. My current apartment was $825 a month back then, and I could have paid that because I really didn’t have any other bills. But they wouldn’t let me so I had to wait until I could get Housing assistance. No amount of term limiting would have changed that, and that was long before the covid greed hit the landlords.

They all tell everyone they should just go get a better job but they sure do throw a tantrum if they have to wait too long at Starbucks because no one can afford to work there unless they are willing to live in a tent.

https://www.nahro.org/news/submit-comments-on-huds-term-limit-and-work-requirement-proposed-rule/

#HUD #housing #Section8 #PBV #HCV #WorkRequirements

“It’s just this dissonant, unhelpful interaction that you have with the government. I lost my job, I need food benefits. Well, you can only get food benefits if you have a job.”

Ummm…yeah. The objective is to make it impossible to get needed benefits. Thanks MAGA.

#snap #workrequirements

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/04/13/repub/snap-work-requirements-dont-boost-jobs-but-drop-participation-research-finds/

Florida Lawmakers Aim to Add Work Requirements Without Expanding Medicaid

https://murica.website/2026/03/florida-lawmakers-aim-to-add-work-requirements-without-expanding-medicaid/

Attorneys General Sue Trump for Using Shutdown to Disrupt Food Aid for Millions

The Trump administration is facing a flurry of legal challenges to policies that could leave 42 million low-income people without food assistance as soon as November 1 while fast-tracking funding cuts and work requirements targeting veterans, unhoused people, and other vulnerable groups that rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as SNAP or food stamps).

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