SNAP and Medicaid recipients in Florida have lost access to their benefits and health insurance coverage due to issues with a recently introduced application portal.

Florida's MYACCESS website is keeping its name but changing its portal, meaning millions of Floridians will have to create a new account. Many are in the middle of Medicaid redetermination.

Residents reported problems accessing the new system on the Florida Department of Children and Families’ Facebook page. New Florida website for Medicaid, food assistance hit with early problems ...

Following the launch of the state’s My Access Portal for SNAP and Medicaid benefits, a South Florida woman said a stranger’s name and her baby have appeared on her mother’s account.

At a news conference last week where the “Live Healthy” bill was rolled out, Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, was blunt about the chances that Florida would ever expand Medicaid.

Florida says it’s about to become easier to apply for and renew government assistance. Advocates say coming changes may do the opposite. The Florida Department of Children and Families on ...

Two consumer advocacy groups filed a lawsuit in a Florida federal court Tuesday seeking to halt the state’s termination of residents’ Medicaid benefits. The suit is the first in the nation to ...

In Florida there are close to 3 million children on Medicaid, the nation’s public health insurance program for people with low income. That reflects about 67% of all children in the state.