Steph Quinn
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Missouri adds new paperwork requirements to food assistance as federal penalties loom (opens the original)
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Since receiving a letter from the Missouri Department of Social Services Sept. 1 containing “an important notice” about his federal food assistance, Andrew Dallas has struggled to ease his mind. Dallas, 63, of Arnold, who was diagnosed with epilepsy after a childhood head injury, can’t work or drive, and he depends on disability benefits and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program, previously known as food stamps, to get by. Skipping meals, Dallas told The Independent, can trigger his seiz
Missouri Medicaid enrollee challenges Trump rule on work requirement exemptions (opens the original)
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Five Medicaid enrollees, six medical organizations and the City of Columbus, Ohio are plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit arguing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid overstepped its authority in requiring "medically frail" adults to demonstrate their conditions hinder their ability to fulfill Medicaid work requirements in order to be exempted (Getty Images). Emily Byrd has lost Medicaid coverage twice due to paperwork problems. Both times, Byrd, of Kansas City, submitted documents requested by the
Missouri House candidate charged in plot to plant drugs on Republican primary opponent (opens the original)
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A Republican legislative candidate in Joplin plotted to plant cocaine and Adderall on his primary opponent in an effort to derail her campaign, federal prosecutors allege. Thomas Ross, who won the Republican nomination for Missouri’s 161st House District by only 32 votes, was charged Wednesday with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. A criminal complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri alleges Ross spent weeks discussing a plan to plant th
Abuse lawsuits target Christian home whose director backed Missouri foster care bill | Fulton Sun (opens the original)
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A children's Christian residential facility whose director has spent three years urging Missouri lawmakers to allow unlicensed religious organizations to care for foster children in state custody is being sued in federal court by former residents who allege they were subjected to forced labor and sexual abuse. Three lawsuits filed against Show-Me Christian Youth Home allege that the former residents were forced to perform heavy manual labor under threat of food deprivation, isolation or more wor
Missouri lawmakers press child welfare leaders on foster care deaths, staff turnover | Fulton Sun (opens the original)
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A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers pressed Children's Division Director Sara Smith on Wednesday to explain how the agency ensures children with elevated medical or behavioral needs get appropriate foster placements. The questions came after what state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, an Arnold Republican and chair of the legislature's Joint Committee on Government Accountability who called the hearing, described as "a number of fatalities" this summer involving children in the agency's care. A
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