P&P April Issue 2018

of the current administration is to expand work, education and training preparatory to work, or other forms of community engage- ment requirements as conditions of eligibility for numerous health and human services programs. For the first time it would expand work requirements to Medicaid and strengthen current minimal ones in subsidized public housing. The administration’s emphasis on the importance of work for noncustodial parents has recently led to the federal O ce of Child Support Enforcement to issue guidance to state child support agencies clarifying that it is eager to grant exemptions requests to allow states to use incentive funds to finance employment and training e orts for that population. A major emphasis