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Welfare work/study requirements
The Tennessee Senate has voted to send a TennCare work requirement bill to Gov. Bill Haslam. It requires the state to ask for a federal waiver of Medicaid rules, to put in place what lawmakers call a "reasonable work and community engagement" requirements for able-bodied, working-age adults who have no dependent children under the age of six. It requires recipients to work 20 hours per week, volunteer that amount of time or go to school. Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Jeff Yarbro of Nashville tried to amend the bill to have the state ask for federal approval to expand TennCare to an estimated 180,000 working Tennesseans with federal dollars picking up most of the cost. But Republican senators voted against the proposal. Senators "in this chamber never had the chance to vote for Medicaid expansion," Yarbro said, pointing out that Gov. Bill Haslam tried twice to expand TennCare but fellow Republicans in the GOP-controlled Senate killed it. "This amendment would allow us to right that," Yarbro argued. Implementing the work requirement will cost money because recipients will have to be monitored. Proponents want to use federal money from the Families First program to pay the costs.
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