An unfortunate but widely predicted consequence of the Affordable Care Act.

Aaron Bandler of the Daily Caller reported.

University Reducing Student Work Hours Thanks To Obamacare

The University of Kansas has reduced student employment hours from 30 hours a week to 20 hours a week due to the Affordable Care Act mandate that compels employers to provide health insurance to part-time workers, Campus Reform reports.

Graduate students can work no more than 29 hours.

“The revised policy seeks to balance the necessity for students to make academic progress while managing potential fiscal liabilities with ACA,” vice provost for administration and finance Diane Goddard said in an email to the departments obtained by The University Daily Kansan.

According to The Daily Kansan, Director of Human Resources Ola Faucher estimates that nearly 5,000 student employees and every university department will be impacted by the cutbacks in employment hours.

However, KU spokesman Gavin Young told KSHB Kansas City that of their student workers, “there are very few who are actually working over the 20 hour limit, comparatively.”

Student workers are concerned at how the university’s new policy will affect them.

Senior Elizabeth Melton, for instance, works at KU’s Anschutz Library 25 hours a week. With the cutbacks, Melton will have to take out more student loans.

“I wouldn’t have enough money to pay for all my expenses next semester,” Melton told The Daily Kansan. “So I’m going to be in a lot more debt once I graduate than I would have been normally, because I was trying to kinda keep up with it just so I didn’t have to take out a loan, and now I do.”