# Judge exempts chronically ill Medicaid recipients from new work requirements

https://mins.news/en/item/123420

- CNN, 2026-10-31 04:01 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/30/health/medicaid-frailty-decision?Date=20261031&Profile=CNN

> A federal judge ruled that chronically ill people can qualify for Medicaid without meeting the work requirements in the Trump administration’s latest guidance for exemptions as “medically frail.”

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