Mississippi Medicaid Submits Waiver To Impose Work Requirements On Caretaker Adults

Mississippi Medicaid is waiting for a federal decision on its 1115 waiver to impose work participation requirements on able-bodied caretaker adults. "Caretaker adults" are defined as adults with children or adults legally responsible for a child; and those on transitional Medicaid assistance (one year of additional Medicaid benefits for families that would otherwise lose coverage). Mississippi is a non-Medicaid expansion state and therefore able-bodied childless adults are not covered by the program and consequently not included in the waiver. Currently, the state does not have work requirements and able-bodied caretaker adults receive coverage regardless of whether . . .