Sovereign Hager

During the COVID pandemic, Congress required that Medicaid keep people continuously enrolled throughout the public health emergency order. But that order has ended and now nearly 60,000 New Mexicans have lost their health insurance. On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico, we’ll discuss how this unwinding process will impact health outcomes.

For decades, families in New Mexico have been missing out on food and medical assistance that they’re eligible for under federal law. Records show that…

New Mexico is still too slow in delivering food and medical assistance to the many people here who need it—and the problem is the people in charge. That’s…

The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty said thousands of families in need of food assistance and health care still aren’t receiving them fast enough…

In an ongoing, decades-long conflict about whether public assistance in New Mexico is available to people who need it most, a federal judge has…

When people apply for food stamps, federal law says they should get them in seven days. But in New Mexico, government workers are blowing the whistle on the state doctoring food stamps applications

Hungry people in New Mexico may have been denied expedited food assistance after their applications were falsified and put on hold. That’s according to…

Court proceedings were paused in a hearing about the slow processing of food stamps applications last week when it seemed like a former state employee…

More than half a million people in the state make use of food stamps. Federal judges ordered the state on Monday, March 7, to halt work requirements for…

In the latest round of the ongoing fight about food stamps, a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Jan. 27, aims to halt new work requirements. New Mexico has the…