immigrants and medicaid eligibility

Come October 1, immigrants seeking Medicaid benefits – including lawful immigrants – will face a new array of eligibility criteria and requirements. KFF has presented a broad look at those new criteria, ushered in as a result of last year’s federal budget reconciliation bill – also known as H.R. 1 and the One Big Beautiful Act Bill –  and how they are expected to be implemented. The major aspects of the coming changes are (all quoted directly from the KFF review): States must redetermine eligibility for all “potentially affected” existing Medicaid enrollees under the new rules by October 1, 2026, [...]