Another 17,000 applications are being processed.

The agency must launch redeterminations for another 84,000 participants.

On Tuesday, Gov. Kate Brown announced she will require the Health Authority to provide her with weekly updates on its progress cleaning up the Medicaid eligibility problems. The governor also set an Aug. 31 deadline for the agency to finish doing checks on people whose Medicaid eligibility is unclear.

The agency plans to complete its analysis of the redetermination backlog by the end of this month.

Brown suggested that critics of the state's handling of Medicaid eligibility checks should remember the importance of the program to low-income Oregonians.

"We've heard a lot about Medicaid eligibility over the last week, but we haven't heard much about the lives that depend on it," Brown said in a statement. "These areVOA Newscasts

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Liberian Government Sets Record Straight on Embassy Spy Allegation

November 01, 2009 4:01 AM

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Last month, the Liberian Embassy in Washington was accused of spying on Liberians in the United States in a hunt for those believed to be against the government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The allegations infuriated many Liberians in the United States who called on President Sirleaf to look into the matter. The government sent a high-power delegation to the United States led by national security advisor H. Boima Fahnbulleh to set the record straight.

Both the government delegation and Liberians in the United States met at a town hall meeting Sunday to exchange views on the spy allegation.

The allegation was prompted by revelations of