In a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary-Designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sanders requested a waiver to standing Medicaid rules to allow Arkansas to establish a work requirement.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced a push for a new work requirement for people on Medicaid. She sent a letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary. The plan would require Medicaid recipients who are able-bodied and of working age to work.

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that Arkansas will seek federal approval to require Medicaid recipients to work or volunteer to keep their benefits. Why it matters: About 220,000 Arkansans receive Medicaid benefits,

Gov. Sarah Sanders on Tuesday (Jan. 28) pitched the new Trump administration for a waiver to Arkansas’ Medicaid insurance program that will add a work requirement for able-bodied individuals.

Changes could be coming for Arkansans who are on Medicaid. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is proposing to add work requirements for some Medicaid recipients. Similar rules were imposed in the state in 2018 but later struck down by the Biden administration.