Author: Rebecca Vallas

Rebecca Vallas is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where her work focuses on achieving economic justice. In 2022, she launched TCF’s Disability Economic Justice team and cofounded the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative, which brings together more than 40 leading organizations across the disability rights and justice and economic policy sectors to work collaboratively to bring a disability lens across all economic policymaking in the United States.

Three Reasons Congress Should Reject Medicaid Work Requirements

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On April 26, the House passed Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill, the “Limit, Save and Grow Act.” If enacted, the bill would create new work reporting requirements, stripping Medicaid coverage from adults unable to document eighty hours of work or community service per month.

Work reporting requirements are unnecessary, harmful and ultimately counter to the goals of the Medicaid program. Here’s why.