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US health department widens immigrant benefit restrictions
The Trump administration is widening its interpretation of a law banning most immigrants living in the United States from ...
Trump administration bans illegal immigrants from taxpayer-funded services, including Head Start
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy announced a policy change to PRWORA interpretation, restricting illegal immigrants from ...
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HHS bans illegal immigrants from federal health care benefits
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services July 10 rescinded a policy that extended certain federal public benefits to ...
Trump administration bars illegal immigrants from swath of federal programs
Multiple Cabinet departments issued new interpretations of the 1996 welfare reform law to prevent illegal immigrants from collecting "federal public benefits." ...
US judge says layoffs at Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and must be halted
A federal judge has ruled that recent mass layoffs at the US Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and ...
20 states challenge HHS' transfer of Medicaid data to DHS
The lawsuit states that on June 13, the plaintiff states learned that HHS had transferred to DHS en mass Medicaid files from ...
How 'One Big Beautiful Bill' affects Medicaid, rural hospitals, health and social services
Florida did not expand Medicaid as most states did, so the impact may be lesser than other places, but reductions loom.
Kennedy Cancels Meeting of Key Preventive Health Panel
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, abruptly canceled a meeting this week of a federal task force that helps determine which preventive health measures must be covered ...