Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: Related Resources

Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements Updated on: KFF Resources on Medicaid Work Requirements Work requirements overview: - A Closer Look at the Work Requirement Provisions in the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law, July 2025 - 5 Key Facts About Medicaid Work Requirements, February 2025 - Implications of Medicaid Work and Reporting Requirements for Adults with Mental Health or Substance Use Disorders, June 2025 - Implementing Work Requirements on a National Scale: What We Know from State Waiver Experience, May 2025 - Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Federal Medicaid Spending Reductions Across the States: Enacted Reconciliation Package, July 2025 50-state survey of Medicaid eligibility and enrollment policies: - An Early Look at Policy Decisions as States Get Ready to Implement Work Requirements, April 2026 - Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment, and Renewal Policies as States Prepare for Major Medicaid Policy Changes, April 2026 Implementation of work requirements: - The Medical Frailty Exemption from Medicaid Work Requirements: Key Issues to Watch for in Upcoming CMS Guidance, May 2026 - A Closer Look at North Carolina’s Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Provisions and Other Changes Amid Medicaid Budget Shortfalls, May 2026 - Implementing Medicaid Work Requirements: Lessons from Unwinding, April 2026 - A Closer Look at California’s Plans to Implement Work Requirements While Facing Major Budget Shortfalls Amid Cuts in Federal Medicaid Funding, April 2026 - A Look at the Intersection of SNAP and Medicaid as States Implement Medicaid Work Requirements, March 2026 - A Closer Look at Nebraska, the First State Planning to Implement a Medicaid Work Requirement, January 2026 - Challenges with Implementing Work Requirements: Findings from a Survey of State Medicaid Programs, October 2025 - A Look at the Potential Impact of the High Unemployment Hardship Exception to Medicaid Work Requirements, September 2025 - How Will States Implement Medicaid Work Requirements?, September 2025 Research and analysis on Medicaid and work: - Different Data Source, But Same Results: Most Adults Subject to Medicaid Work Requirements Are Working or Face Barriers to Work, June 2025 - Medicaid Work Requirements: Implications for Low Income Women’s Coverage, April 2025 - Understanding the Intersection of Medicaid and Work: An Update, February 2025 - The Relationship Between Work and Health: Findings from a Literature Review, August 2018 1115 work requirement waivers: - Medicaid Work Requirements: Current Waiver and Legislative Activity, November 2024 - Medicaid Work Requirements are Back on the Agenda, April 2023 - An Overview of Medicaid Work Requirements: What Happened Under the Trump and Biden Administrations?, May 2022 - Medicaid Work Requirements at the U.S. Supreme Court, February 2021 - The Landscape of Medicaid Demonstration Waivers Ahead of the 2020 Election, October 2020 - Medicaid Waiver Tracker: Approved and Pending Section 1115 Waivers by State, November 2025 Work requirements implications and state experience: - Supporting Work without the Requirement: State and Managed Care Initiatives, December 2019 - Key State Policy Choices About Medical Frailty Determinations for Medicaid Expansion Adults, June 2019 - Medicaid Enrollees and Work Requirements: Lessons From the TANF Experience, August 2017 - Don’t Expect Medicaid Work Requirements to Make a Big Difference, April 2017 Arkansas work requirement experience: - 3 Key Questions About the Arkansas Medicaid Work and Reporting Requirements Case, March 2020 - Disability and Technical Issues Were Key Barriers to Meeting Arkansas’ Medicaid Work and Reporting Requirements in 2018, June 2019 - February State Data for Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas, March 2019 - Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas: Experience and Perspectives of Enrollees, December 2018 - An Early Look at Implementation of Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas, October 2018 KFF Polling on Work Requirements: - Working Medicaid Enrollees Value Work But Are Wary About Work Requirements When Told About Paperwork Burden, June 2025 - KFF Health Tracking Poll: Views of the One Big Beautiful Bill, June 2025 - KFF Health Tracking Poll February 2025: The Public’s Views on Potential Changes to Medicaid, March 2025