Sentence examples for cutting eligibility from inspiring English sources

States, suffering severe fiscal problems, are cutting eligibility and benefits in Medicaid and other health programs, the panel said, and tens of thousands of people die from medical errors each year.

The ensuing funding shortfall would leave states with an untenable choice between increasing taxes, cutting other state programs, or cutting eligibility, benefits, or provider payments.

Thanks to congressional budget fights in 2011, the federal government reduced eligibility for the grants, cutting eligibility time from 18 semesters to 12 and eliminating grants for summer study.

States are facing unsustainable increases in demand for public insurance programs and are cutting benefits, eligibility levels and provider payments in order to balance budgets.

l Florida, which already has the nation's longest waiting list for HIV prescription drug assistance, held public hearings as officials consider cutting the eligibility threshold in half to $21,780 or less in annual income.

Kasich has proposed paring back some of the ACA's more generous aspects, such as reducing the number of benefits insurers are required to offer and potentially cutting the eligibility level for Medicaid recipients from 138percentt of the poverty level to 100percentt if there is a stable marketplace with adequate subsidies they can join.

Since the Republicans took control of Congress in the 1994 elections, Congress has emphasized two themes: cutting welfare eligibility (and especially reducing the time period over which benefits can be collected) and transferring authority from the national government to the states.

Critics say that states would probably respond by restricting eligibility, cutting Medicaid benefits or reducing payments to health care providers.

White House officials say they have taken enormous heat from the left for putting some structural Medicare reforms on the table — cutting benefits, raising eligibility ages and changing cost-of-living adjustments.

Beyond the significant cost of permanently housing inmates in prison for the course of their lives until they die of natural causes, critics of life-without-parole sentences say that cutting off parole eligibility for a prisoner is unusually harsh because it assumes that their capacity for rehabilitation and transformation is static and predictable at the time of their sentencing.

Clinton wants to make the fund solvent until 2075, but doing that would require tougher measures, such as cutting benefits or increasing eligibility age.