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By: Tami Luhby

As many as 4,600 Medicaid recipients in Arkansas have lost their benefits for the rest of this year after failing to meet the state’s new work requirements.

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Consumer advocates, however, pointed to the results as proof that work requirements do not help people find jobs. They just add more hurdles for people to get government assistance. “So far, Arkansas Works doesn’t seem to be incentivizing work at all,” Joan Alker and Maggie Clark, at the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, wrote in a recent blog post. “However, what does seem clear is that the new approach (and others like it) will likely result in significant coverage losses for adults who rely on Medicaid coverage for their survival.”

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