Publications

March 8, 2022

By imposing new, burdensome eligibility verification requirements for safety-net programs, HF 2438 would set up nearly 8,000 Iowans, including children, to lose Medicaid and Hawki  — insurance that helps them get the health care they need and helps Iowa further its goal of becoming the healthiest state in the nation. This bill will increase bureaucratic red tape and administrative costs and make it harder for Iowans to stay healthy and support their families.

April 4, 2023

SF 494 would undermine the integrity of SNAP and Medicaid and put new burdens on low-income Iowans. The bill will erect additional administrative hurdles that will remove people from SNAP, Medicaid and Hawki — even when they’re eligible to receive benefits — and make it harder for Iowans, including children, to get enough food to eat and the health care they need.  

March 27, 2023

HF 613 would undermine the integrity of Iowa’s SNAP and Medicaid programs and create burdens on low-income Iowans. The bill would kick eligible people off critical supports that help them put food on the table and get the health care they need by creating more cracks for families to fall through when seeking assistance.

February 2023

HF 3 would undermine the integrity of Iowa’s SNAP and Medicaid programs and create burdens on low-income Iowans. The bill would kick eligible people off these critical supports that help them put food on the table and get the health care they need by putting up unnecessary red tape and creating more cracks for families to fall through when seeking assistance.

April 27, 2021

The Iowa House released its the Health and Human Services budget bill late last week, and it charts a far a better path for our state than the Senate HHS budget proposal released earlier in the month. 

February 2021

Maintaining program integrity is a shared goal — as advocates, we want every dollar to go to families who need the help. But SSB 1125 is not a common-sense approach. It’s a pointless, pricey scheme that will increase bureaucratic red tape and administrative costs and make it harder for Iowans to stay healthy, put food on the table and support their families. 

July 2020

Given the current crises, Iowa needs Congress to act and provide additional, substantial relief to ensure Medicaid remains strong and can do its job in supporting Iowa families.

January 2020

HF 2030 is not a common-sense approach. It’s a pointless, pricey scheme that will increase bureaucratic red tape and administrative costs and make it
harder for Iowans to stay healthy, put food on the table and support their families. 

Health coverage before, during and after pregnancy increases access to preventive care, improves health outcomes for mothers and children, and reduces maternal mortality rates. By assuring continuity of care during an extremely vulnerable time, such a move will improve the health of new mothers – and set their children on a healthy trajectory.

January 2020 | Peter Fisher and Natalie Veldhouse

Half the jobs in Iowa pay less than what single-parent families need to meet a basic needs budget, and even childless couples and single individuals, as well as married couples with children, need well above the minimum wage. In the second installment of this year's The Cost of Living in Iowa, we focus on a set of “work support” policies that help low-wage working families survive and keep their children out of poverty, and that provide a stepping stone to a better education and a better job. 

April 27, 2021

The Iowa House released its the Health and Human Services budget bill late last week, and it charts a far a better path for our state than the Senate HHS budget proposal released earlier in the month.