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Pregnant women, parents of young children, veterans with disabilities and several other groups will be exempt from Medicaid\u2019s new work requirements, the Trump administration said Monday.<\/p>\n

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The guidance was released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, meeting a June 1 deadline under President Trump\u2019s \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d to explain how states should carry out the work rules.<\/p>\n

Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, many adults on Medicaid will need to work, attend school or volunteer for at least 80 hours a month to keep their coverage. <\/p>\n

The guidance also allows exemptions for people who are \u201cmedically frail,\u201d or have conditions that significantly limit their ability to work, such as cancer or substance use disorder. The guidance doesn\u2019t include an exemption for people who are homeless.<\/p>\n

States will have discretion to determine which medical conditions qualify for an exemption. Nebraska, which implemented Medicaid work requirements earlier this year, listed diagnoses that would qualify a person as medically frail in a nearly and technical language.<\/p>\n

During the first year, people will be allowed to attest \u2014 on their Medicaid application or renewal form \u2014 that they qualify for one of the exemptions rather than provide documentation, federal health officials said on a call Monday. <\/p>\n

Beginning in 2028, states will be expected to verify the exemptions. The temporary flexibility, the officials said, is intended to give states time to build systems that can verify exemptions using claims data and other records.<\/p>\n

Allowing people to self-report exemptions without proof, however, could make it easier for some to falsely claim they qualify.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re forgiving, but we\u2019re not foolish,\u201d Dr. Mehmet Oz, the CMS\u2019 administrator, said on the call. \u201cWe are appropriately going after problem areas and doing it in a way that\u2019s compassionate and forgiving, but we don\u2019t want to be false.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group, said allowing people to self-declare that they qualify for an exemption for the next year means fewer Medicaid enrollees will fall through the cracks and end up uninsured.<\/p>\n

The work requirements are expected to cause about 5 million people to lose their health coverage by 2034, largely because of paperwork and administrative hurdles, as opposed to because of their job status, according to a KFF report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe quick implementation timeline makes it even harder for states to set up adequate systems,\u201d Levitt said. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration says the policy will encourage more people to find jobs or increase their work hours.<\/p>\n

Officials cited a 2026 report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonpartisan research group, that found Americans are working fewer hours than they did in previous decades. The officials argued that government benefits reduce incentives to seek employment.<\/p>\n

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