Arkansas becomes third state to require Medicaid recipients to work [View all]
March 5 (UPI) -- Arkansas on Monday became the third state to receive federal approval to require low-income residents on Medicaid to work or volunteer to receive benefits.
"[It's] not about punishing anyone," Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told reporters on Monday. "It's about giving people the opportunity to work. It's to give them training that they need. It's to help them move out of poverty and up the economic ladder."
Prior to Arkansas, work requirements for Medicaid were approved in Indiana and Kentucky.
Still, Hutchinson predicted that Arkansas would be the first to actually implement the law because it has been preparing to do so for about a year, when it first sought approval for the federal waiver.
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