If you are a SNAP benefits recipient in the United States, but have not yet received your monthly payment, check your upcoming paydays. Food stamps will be sent until September 28, 2024. As for the amount of your SNAP benefits, they will depend on your income, the size of your household and some other factors. The maximum amounts are the same in the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia, with checks reaching up to $1,751.
The last September SNAP benefit payments are soon to arrive. According to the USDA payment schedule, there are 17 states that are sending out the last food stamps in September. Therefore, most of the states, a total of 33, have already finished delivering food stamps. Certain states will stop sending SNAP benefits very soon, on September 20.
How Long Will It Take in Each State to Stop Delivering SNAP Benefits?
- New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee and Washington. Texas and Florida will take longer, until September 28.
- Alabama: September 4-23
- Delaware: September 2-23
- Florida: from September 1 to 28
- Georgia: September 5-23
- Indiana: September 5-23
- Kentucky: September 1-19
- Louisiana: September 1-23
- Maryland: September 4-23
- Michigan: September 3-21
- Mississippi: September 4-21
- Missouri: September 1-22
- New Mexico: September 1-20
- North Carolina: September 3-21
- Ohio: September 2-20
- Tennessee: September 1-20
- Texas: September 1-28
- Washington: September 1-20
What Are the SNAP benefits
SNAP helps people with low incomes eat healthy foods. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides nutritional support to low-income seniors, people with disabilities, and people with disabilities live on fixed incomes and other low-income individuals and families.
SNAP is a federal program administered by the Office of Economic Self-Sufficiency (ESS) of the Florida Department of Children and Families, which is responsible for determining eligibility using federal guidelines, eligibility rules, and SNAP benefit levels. They are set, for the most part, at the federal level and are consistent throughout the country. Although states have flexibility to adapt aspects of the program, people must pass all eligibility rules to receive food assistance benefits.
Snap Amounts Before 2025 COLA Increase
If you qualify for the maximum amount and your family has 5 members, you could have up to $1,155. A single person can receive up to $291, which could be close to $202 on average. If your family is 3 people, you could be receiving up to $766. Married couples or 2-person households could expect a monthly payment of up to $535. Please note that these payments are sent to your EBT cards.
You can then use this money at any SNAP-affiliated farmers market, grocery store, or retailer. Check if the place you are shopping takes EBT cards and look for foods that are within SNAP, as there are certain restrictions and you can’t buy whatever you want, only what the USDA allows. These maximum amounts will remain the same through September 30, 2024. After the 2025 COLA increase, SNAP benefits will increase on October 1, 2024.
These Are the Future Food Stamps Amounts
Household size for SNAP benefits and maximum amounts in the lower 48 states and DC:
- 1 beneficairy $292
- 2 beneficiaries $536
- 3 beneficiaries $768
- 4 beneficiaries $975
- 5 beneficiaries $1,158
- 6 beneficiaries $1,390
- 7 beneficiaries $1,536
- 8 beneficiaries $1,756
- Each additional beneficiary $220
