Failing to meet work requirement, 4,000 more Arkansans dropped from Medicaid

Another 4,109 people in Arkansas will be removed from the Medicaid program after failing to meet the state’s work requirement, bringing the total number to 8,462 four months into implementation of the requirements, new state data show.

Arkansas was the first state to require certain Medicaid enrollees work or train for work as a condition of staying enrolled in the program. People on Medicaid in Arkansas have to log their hours online, and if they fail to do so, they are taken out of the program and are not allowed to re-enroll until the following year.