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María Alvarez is executive director of New York StateWide Senior Action Council, based in Albany. Nora OBrien-Suric, Ph.D., is president of the Health Foundation for Western & Central New York, based ...

Nearly one-quarter of older adults and people living with disabilities who are income-eligible for Medicaid may face barriers to enrollment due to caps on financial assets and home equity limits, ...

In 2025, Congress passed a sweeping federal spending law widely referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1). Among its many ...

For Americans nearing retirement age, the safety net just got a lot more conditional. Under the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” new work requirements for Medicaid and expanded work rules for SNAP are ...

All this comes on top of rolling back Biden-era Medicaid eligibility rules that make it easier for people to enroll in MSP – a program that lowers Medicare costs for poor older adults. In an earlier ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Republicans in Congress intend to cut about $880 billion in federal health ...

The budget reconciliation bill is a double whammy for older adults and disabled people, leading to both direct losses of Medicaid coverage and SNAP benefits and significantly increasing the chances of ...