[LWVNM Action] What Could Medicaid Work Requirements Mean for SSI Applicants? | KFF

[Meredith Machen]

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/what-could-medicaid-work-requirements-mean-for-ssi-applicants/

NM will have pick up substantially more of the healthcare costs starting
1/27 when the Medicaid work requirements start and other federal funding
ends. We in NM are very fortunate to have the ability to pick up more of
the costs to cover the devastating federal cuts, thanks in part to revenues
generated by and distributed through our various sovereign permanent and
trust funds. We are flush now largely due to the extraction industry, but
we need to plan for the future when we don’t have the huge oil and gas
resources.

In the past, when we had shortages in education funding, the legislature
passed a ballot measure that voters approved to increase the distribution
from the Land Grant Permanent Fund for Public Education and the narrow list
of other named beneficiaries.

We need to make sure that the other sovereign fund that can cover the
increased healthcare costs, nutrition, and other critical needs caused by
the Big Ugly tax cuts. More New Mexicans live in poverty than in most other
states. We have a nest egg that must be put to use for the emergency we
will face when the Big Ugly federal cuts are implemented after the
election. The proposed federal budget for Fiscal Year 2028, which starts
Oct 1, will only make matters more urgent. The Big Ugly cuts go through
2029, and the Departments of War and Homeland Security are likely to get
the lion’s share of the budgets for several years, even if leadership
changes in the next Congress and presidency.

What’s the plan for NM? Do we need to get a Constitutional Amendment
resolution on the 2028 ballot?

Meredith Machen, LWVNM Education, Immigration, Women’s Issues, and Special
Projects Chair
projects at lwvnm.org
505 577 6337
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