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The MyAccess website is keeping its name but changing its portal, meaning millions of Floridians will have to create a new account — with many in the middle of Medicaid redetermination.

The bottleneck caused by states’ reevaluation of Medicaid enrollees has swept up low-income families that rely on other safety-net services.

A lot of people don't think twice about buying milk, says Teresa Calderez. "But there are lots of us out here who can't buy a gallon of milk when we need it."

Officials in 32 states and other jurisdictions have been using texts, voicemails, snail mail, flyers and social media posts — all in multiple languages — to let recipients know that their extra food stamps end after February's payments.

More than a third of Floridians earning $50,000 to $100,000 reported experiencing food insecurity over the past year, according to a survey published by No Kid Hungry.

The federal funds are earmarked for low-income children who receive free and reduced lunch, to help offset the cost of feeding them at home this summer.

The state is quietly closing offices that provide help to people applying for food stamps and Medicaid in several Florida counties.

Florida education officials and advocates say about 200,000 students could become ineligible for automatic free school lunches under a Trump…

Activists delivered a petition with 1.5 million signatures to the agency in an effort to stop a rule change that would end automatic enrollment in free school lunch for nearly 1 million kids.

The federal food stamp program that provides a lifeline to needy people throughout Florida will continue running through February. Funding for the...