Judge blocks Trump administration’s Medicaid rule forcing sick recipients to prove they can’t work | CNN
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Chronically ill people on Medicaid won’t be bound by new work requirement rules that the latest Trump administration guidance requires in order to qualify for “medically frail” exemptions, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
A rule from the US government would have required some people to show that their medical conditions "significantly impair" their ability to comply with Medicaid work requirements.
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Chronically ill people on Medicaid won’t be bound by new work requirement rules that the latest Trump administration guidance requires in order to qualify for “medically frail” exemptions, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
US District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston gave a partial victory to a coalition of 25 states and the District of Columbia, which sued the Trump administration in June over the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidance linked to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The 2025 law instituted the first-ever federal work requirement in Medicaid.
