{"id":221783,"date":"2026-05-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/florida-budget-considers-ai-for-snap-eligibility\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:10:11","slug":"florida-budget-considers-ai-for-snap-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/florida-budget-considers-ai-for-snap-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida budget considers AI for SNAP eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/florida\/2026\/05\/28\/florida-budget-considers-ai-for-snap-eligibility\/\">Florida budget considers AI for SNAP eligibility<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/florida\/2026\/05\/28\/florida-budget-considers-ai-for-snap-eligibility\/\">https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/florida\/2026\/05\/28\/florida-budget-considers-ai-for-snap-eligibility\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.clickorlando.com\">www.clickorlando.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Florida is planning to invest $4 million in artificial intelligence to evaluate eligibility for food assistance.<\/li>\n<li>The state budget includes a provision directing the Department of Children and Families to find a vendor that can use machine learning to analyze SNAP eligibility.<\/li>\n<li>The aim of this investment is to minimize errors and reduce the state&#8217;s financial liability from these errors.<\/li>\n<li>The chosen vendor will identify and correct incorrect eligibility determinations, pinpoint their causes, and provide recommendations for operational improvements.<\/li>\n<li>The department must finalize the procurement process by September 1.<\/li>\n<li>Gov. Ron DeSantis has not yet confirmed his support for or opposition to this provision. A spokesperson advised to be patient for further details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida budget considers AI for SNAP eligibility https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/florida\/2026\/05\/28\/florida-budget-considers-ai-for-snap-eligibility\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-28 11:00:00 Source Domain: www.clickorlando.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/graham-media-group\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto\/c_thumb,w_700\/v1\/media\/gmg\/OAYCNRZZRZHKFEGXVPU4JZRRMA.jpg?_a=DATAg1fkZAA0","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-221783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221785,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221783\/revisions\/221785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}