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 says they’re about to make it easier to apply for and renew government assistance with a new portal. Advocates say the timing of their changes may do the opposite.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

According to data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Florida has dropped more than 300,000 from Medicaid, nearly twice as many as the next closest state, Arizona, which has dropped 149,000.

The outage, which occurred just after the White House ordered a pause on federal grants, raised concerns that billions in Medicaid funding would be cut off.