Lucas added that campus administrators are aware of what the cut in working hours will mean to some students and hope a proposed change in federal law will release universities from the responsibility of providing coverage for students working 30 hours or more a week.

“UW-Madison is very concerned about the hours cutback required by this law as many of our students are dependent on these hours to assist with educational expenses,” he wrote.

“There is currently an active student worker exemption bill that would exclude students who are employed by an institution of higher education and carrying a full-time academic workload from being counted as a full-time employee in calculating shared responsibility regarding health care coverage under the ACA," Lucas said. "We are hopeful that there will soon be some momentum with this bill and changes made so that students will not be negatively impacted by this law.”

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