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The Trump administration on May 2 finalized a Medicaid rule which will cut off states from skimming Medicaid payments from home caregivers and diverting them to labor unions.

Federal law requires Medicaid payments to be made directly to the service providers. But several states began flouting the requirement in the 1990s by diverting portions of the payments toward union dues.

In 2017, eight states took approximately $150 million in Medicaid payments from the wages of more than 350,000 caregivers, according to a report by the Freedom Foundation, a non-profit which has led the fight to curtail the practice.

“Caregivers deserve to be able to choose how to spend their wages after they’ve been paid in full for their services,” said Maxford Nelsen, the director of labor policy at the Freedom Foundation. “If they wish to support a union, that’s up to them. But giving unions access to caregivers’ paychecks has enabled them to exploit caregivers using an array of unethical and illegal schemes, up to and including forging signatures on membership forms.”

The Supreme Court in 2014 struck down mandatory union dues requirements for home caregivers as unconstitutional. The same year, the Obama administration attempted to retroactively legitimize the practice by adding an exception to the direct payment requirement. The Trump administration’s Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced in July 2018 that it intends to undo the Obama-era rule. The final rule will be effective in July 2019.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-administration-blocks-states-from-skimming-medicaid-payments-for-unions_2907345.html

THE 8 STATES THAT SKIM MEDICAID FOR UNION DUES:

However, the practice remains alive and well in at least eight states, including California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. An attempt to unionize home caregivers in Pennsylvania is on hold pending a state Supreme Court ruling.

In 2017 alone, these states skimmed nearly $150 million in union dues from home care aides’ Medicaid payments. From 2000-17, states diverted an estimated $1.4 billion in caregivers’ Medicaid funds to unions.

https://www.freedomfoundation.com/labor/getting-organized-at-home/