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MISSOULA — An hour before sunrise, Shelly Brost walked a mile in freezing rain to the public assistance office. She was running out of time to prove she still qualified
The impact on services for low-income families is an overlooked consequence of ‘unwinding,’ which has led to coverage being terminated for millions of people since April.
An hour before sunrise, Shelly Brost walked a mile in freezing rain to the public assistance office. She was running out of time to prove she still qualified for food aid after being stymied by a backlogged state call center.
The bottleneck caused by states’ reevaluation of Medicaid enrollees has swept up low-income families that rely on other safety-net services.
The 104,000 who lost coverage account for about half of all reviewed cases.