More Than 7,000 People Fail To Meet Arkansas Medicaid Work Requirement

In June 2018, 7,464 people enrolled in Arkansas' Works, the state's Medicaid expansion program, failed to satisfy reporting requirements for the first month of the new community engagement requirement (also known as the "work requirement"). This represents 26% of about 27,000 Arkansas Works beneficiaries subject to the work requirement in June, and 2.5% of the total Medicaid population at that time. If the population subject to the work requirement fails to comply (or qualify for an exemption) for any three months in a calendar year, they face losing their Medicaid coverage for the remainder of the . . .