#workrequirements — Public Fediverse posts

During the congressional debate over the #law last year, #Republicans pushed #WorkRequirements for #Medicaid as a way to get "able-bodied" adults benefiting from government assistance into the workforce. #House Speaker #MikeJohnson said it would help preserve Medicaid "for people who rightly deserve it," not young men "sitting on their couches playing video games." [that’s not who uses Medicaid, but Republicans new “Welfare Queen” lie.]

#Trump #HealthInsurance #health
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5806260/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-nebraska-big-beautiful-bill-hr1-obbba

During the congressional debate over the #law last year, #Republicans pushed #WorkRequirements for #Medicaid as a way to get "able-bodied" adults benefiting from government assistance into the workforce. #House Speaker #MikeJohnson said it would help preserve Medicaid "for people who rightly deserve it," not young men "sitting on their couches playing video games." [that’s not who uses Medicaid, but Republicans new “Welfare Queen” lie.]

#Trump #HealthInsurance #health
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5806260/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-nebraska-big-beautiful-bill-hr1-obbba

During the congressional debate over the #law last year, #Republicans pushed #WorkRequirements for #Medicaid as a way to get "able-bodied" adults benefiting from government assistance into the workforce. #House Speaker #MikeJohnson said it would help preserve Medicaid "for people who rightly deserve it," not young men "sitting on their couches playing video games." [that’s not who uses Medicaid, but Republicans new “Welfare Queen” lie.]

#Trump #HealthInsurance #health
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5806260/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-nebraska-big-beautiful-bill-hr1-obbba

During the congressional debate over the #law last year, #Republicans pushed #WorkRequirements for #Medicaid as a way to get "able-bodied" adults benefiting from government assistance into the workforce. #House Speaker #MikeJohnson said it would help preserve Medicaid "for people who rightly deserve it," not young men "sitting on their couches playing video games." [that’s not who uses Medicaid, but Republicans new “Welfare Queen” lie.]

#Trump #HealthInsurance #health
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5806260/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-nebraska-big-beautiful-bill-hr1-obbba

Rollins made a case for sweeping changes to #SNAP by asserting the #USDA uncovered "massive fraud" in state data the agency demanded, & referred to stats suggesting wrongdoing without providing data or details.

The #Trump admin's latest campaign for SNAP changes comes as millions are already poised to lose #benefits as #states implement new #WorkRequirements & #eligibility rules that #Republicans in #Congress passed over the summer that are the deepest #cuts in history to the program.

#law

#Georgia #Medicaid #Debacle #Bolsters #Progressive #Case Against #WorkRequirements

"While #state #politicians continue playing #games with people's #lives, Georgians are #dying because they can't #afford the #healthcare.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Georgia #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/georgia-medicaid-work-requirements

"[US] law says that a state must have 50% of all families and 90% of two-parent families receiving assistance engaged in either work or activities."
-- The Congressional Research Service
PDF:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12150
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#welfare #WorkRequirements #tanf #CRS #congress

"Under the TANF block grant, the federal government requires states to (1) meet the annual work participation rates determined by the federal government and (2) ensure that every recipient is working (as defined by the state) as soon as the state determines he or she is able or after 24 months of benefit receipt, whichever is earlier. States that do not meet the federal requirements may be sanctioned financially"
-- The Urban Institute
PDF:
https://wrd.urban.org/wrd/Data/databooks/2020%20Welfare%20Rules%20Databook%20(final%2002%2023%202022).pdf#page=147
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#tanf #WorkRequirements

#News is that Pres #JoeBiden is considering Speaker #KevinMcCarthy's demands to decrease funding, add #WorkRequirements, & raise the age of "abled body adults" from 18-50 to 18-56 on #SocialServices like #FoodStamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program / #SNAP).

I need my friends & followers to write the President. We need to tell him to keep hands OFF on #SocialWelfare programs, like SNAP, #TANF, #WIC, #AffordableHousing assistance, #HeadStart, & others.

Go to: whitehouse.gov/contact

I’ve often complained that when the US “ended welfare as we know it” (in 1996) no one kept track of what happened to the people who were on welfare. How many lost their apartments? Became drug addicts? Went to jail? Died?

There’s no doubt in my mind all of these things happened as a consequence. But we’ll never know the numbers. People with money and power didn’t want to talk about it. They didn’t want to know.

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#poverty #inequality #WorkRequirements #FoodStamps #TANF #uspolitics #usa

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What #SpendingCuts are in Speaker #KevinMcCarthy's "Limit, Save, Grow Act" (cont):
• cuts food & nutrition programs to seniors, pregnant mothers, babies, & poor people (incl #SNAP, #WIC, etc)
• adding #WorkRequirements to #SocialWelfare, & raising the age of "abled body adults" to 56
• cuts to #education, public schools & Pell Grants
• ending #HeadStart & #childcare programs
• eliminating #AffordableHousing assistance
-cont-

#news #politics #debtceiling #GOP #Republicans