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Health & Medicine · Bronx residents may get automatic reprieve from new Medicaid work requirements

Nearly 200,000 Bronx residents could be spared from the new federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in January, as New York State plans to invoke a little-known hardship exemption based on the borough's high unemployment rate, state health officials said. The exemption would apply automatically to eligible recipients without additional paperwork.