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Why is your Medicaid being taken away?
January 2027 unless I am officially considered disabled there will be work requirements.
I have done the the math, the likelihood is that even if I am able to find a job and get 20 hours a week that it will push me over the income limit and I will be kicked off medicaid. If I don't find a job that lets me work only 20 hours a week I will also be kicked off medicaid.
The goal of this setup put into place by Trump's big bastard bill is obviously to kick people like me off medicaid whether we get a job or not because getting the job will push us over the income limit and boot us off and not getting a job will boot us off.
Fucking hell, that's America for you, basically killing Medicaid for the absolute poor in society and reserving it for just those marked in mental trouble and physically disabled. I'm trying to sign up for it too in Maine and I'm pretty worried they may not even cover me due to the same laws, especially when it seems like no one will hire me anyways. Trying to sign up for disability, but I'm scared it'll be impossible to sign up for.
For disability, try to find a disability lawyer if you can. I don't know if they have them in Maine, but here in Washington there's a lot of lawyers who specialize in helping you sign up for disability and representing you in court. They don't ask for pay up front, instead when you finally get paid out from disability, you will get a lump sum backpayment back to when you first applied. They will usually make an agreement with you to take a portion of that as their payment. My agreement is for 25% of the backpayments, which I feel is pretty reasonable for legal representation, especially when it adds up to being a lot cheaper than a standard lawyer fee. I strongly suggest researching those lawyers, ask around, find which ones get results and have the most success getting their clients declared legally disabled, and then go have a consultation with them.
I am hoping I can get mine through before I lose my medicaid, just crossing my fingers on that though.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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