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U.S. OKs Arkansas' request to add Medicaid work rule

Arkansas Online: President Donald Trump's administration on Monday granted Arkansas' request to add a work requirement to its Medicaid expansion program but held off deciding whether the state can move about 60,000 people off the program by limiting eligibility to those at or below the poverty level.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is "not at this time approving Arkansas' request" to reduce the income cutoff from 138 percent of the poverty level, agency Administrator Seema Verma said in a letter to Arkansas Department of Human Services Director Cindy Gillespie on Monday.

"We're continuing to work through the issues regarding that," Verma said at a morning news conference with Gov. Asa Hutchinson.

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