Brief Compares SNAP Work Verification to Medicaid Frailty Exclusion

An issue brief examines how states might verify the Medicaid medical frailty exclusion under new work requirements by looking at SNAP's long history of administering similar exemptions. The brief notes states face uncertainty over documentation standards, caseworker discretion, and administrative burden in determining who qualifies as medically frail and therefore exempt from Medicaid work requirements. It draws on SNAP's decades of experience verifying disability and work-exemption status to highlight potential pitfalls and lessons for Medicaid implementation. No specific effective date or state action is described; the piece is a comparative policy analysis intended to inform state planning.

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