{"id":49,"date":"2026-10-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/06\/texas-expands-medicaid-access-to-over-210000-applicants\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:00:00","slug":"texas-expands-medicaid-access-to-over-210000-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/06\/texas-expands-medicaid-access-to-over-210000-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Expands Medicaid Access to Over 210,000 Applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Texas&#039; backlog of Medicaid applications surged from about 1,600 to over 210,000 between January and August, while SNAP backlogs grew from 3,700 to over 150,000. Federal changes to SNAP, including increased state administrative costs and stricter accuracy requirements, have strained the system. Processing times rose to 70 days for Medicaid and over 30 days for SNAP, delaying access to healthcare and food benefits. The outdated eligibility system and manual processes contribute to delays, prompting calls for improved technology and community support.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/health-science\/healthcare\/2026\/09\/01\/560833\/texas-medicaid-application-backlog-grows-to-more-than-210000-state-data-shows\/?amp=1\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas&#039; backlog of Medicaid applications surged from about 1,600 to over 210,000 between January and August, while SNAP backlogs grew from 3,700 to over 150,000. Federal changes to SNAP, including increased state administrative costs and stricter accuracy requirements, have strained the system. Processing times rose to 70 days for Medicaid and over 30 days for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}