Today is Montana’s deadline. Nearly 71,000 people have to show 80 hours a month of work, volunteering or school, and the office checking that paperwork has about a third of the staff it said it needed.
“Of the 59 positions, only about 20 were filled, state health department officials told state lawmakers during the Sept. 9 hearing, adding that numbers had fluctuated amid staff turnover.”
We already ran this experiment in 2023, and this is the result. Eligible people lose coverage over forms.
“Many Montanans who were financially eligible lost Medicaid coverage for technical reasons, such as incorrectly filling out paperwork — roughly 87,000, according to state data from two years ago.”
