Texas Health and Human Services Commission

The base wage for workers who care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is $10.60 an hour in Texas. Lawmakers are considering a raise to $12, but advocates say more is needed.

More than five dozen groups — including United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and the Tarrant Area Food Bank — wrote in support of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's request for $300 million to improve processing times for Medicaid and SNAP applications.

The request, which includes hiring more staff and updating the online application system, comes as applicants must wait for months to receive approval for benefits.

The 15th Court of Appeals has exclusive jurisdiction over cases involving the state, among other things. The ruling comes in response to Dallas County's ongoing lawsuit against Texas over the backlog of mentally ill detainees at the county jail.

The construction begins after lawmakers have allocated $2.5 billion to modernize and increase access to inpatient psychiatric care in Texas.

After 13 years, the state said Judge Janis Jack should be removed from overseeing its foster care system because she isn't 'impartial.'

More than 2 million Texans, mostly children, have lost health insurance as the state has redetermined their eligibility for Medicaid coverage.

The move, which has not been finalized, would drop three large health plans run for two decades by nonprofit children’s hospitals, including Fort Worth's Cook Children’s Health Plan.

A federal appeals court has stayed a $100,000 a day fine against the State of Texas. Texas was found in contempt Monday by U.S. District Judge Janis Jack for violating two of the court's orders in its long-running foster litigation.

Texas was found in contempt Monday by U.S. District Judge Janis Jack for violating two of the court's orders in its long running foster litigation.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will be fined $100,000 a day until it comes into compliance on two remedial court orders.

People didn’t have to review Medicaid applications for years because of pandemic-era protections. But now millions of Texans are going through the process for the first time ever.