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New Work Requirements | Medicaid | Healthy Indiana Plan
Beginning January 1, 2027, Indiana Medicaid requirements for new applicants and existing Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) members will include work requirements. Adults ages 19-64, not pregnant AND not enrolled in or eligible for Medicare must meet the work requirements. Some individuals may not have to meet them. For January applicants, the look back period for work requirements begins today, October 1, 2026.
HIP members and applicants must spend at least 80 hours every month doing one of these activities or attending school or an apprenticeship at least half time. Members and applicants can combine activities to get to 80 hours during a month.
HIP members do not have to meet the requirements during any month that, if for one day during that month, they are:
- parent or caregiver of a child under age 13, or caregiver of a disabled person.
- pregnant, or it has been 12 months or less since your pregnancy ended.
- following the work rules for SNAP or TANF.
- incarcerated or were released in the last 90 days,
- in a drug or alcohol treatment program.
- medically frail or have special medical needs, including blind or disabled, a veteran with a total (100%) disability rating, substance use disorder, serious mental health condition, serious physical, intellectual, or developmental disability, serious or complex medical condition.
- under 26 and were formerly in foster care.
- a member of a federally recognized Tribe.
- Other exemptions may also apply.
More details: in.gov/fssa/hip/hip-work-requirements/index
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