The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP benefits) would be ready to start a new round of payments in the month of July, when most states have already finished sending their allocations to the EBT cards.
There are only a couple of states left, Texas and Florida, that pay between the 1st and the 28th of each month, and interestingly, these are two of the states with the largest SNAP beneficiary populations in the United States. According to the most recent survey of May 2024, there are more than 3.2 million SNAP beneficiaries in the state of Florida, while in Texas there are 4.2 million of recipients.
How the States Determine Your Payment Date
Going back to the month of July (let’s stay focused, folks), most states begin to distribute their allocations starting on the 1st of the month, with a few exceptions that have much smaller populations of food stamp recipients (the old name of this federal program), and that can handle payments in a simpler way than others.
Some states pay their beneficiaries based on the date of birth, others on the last two digits of the case number they were assigned when they applied for benefits, and some others use only the last digit of that case number, to name a few examples.
But all states have their own system, since the United States Department of Agriculture (the agency that manages the funds and sends them to each place) gives each state or territory the power to decide how to group the beneficiaries in order to organize the payments in the most convenient way at the local level.
Upcoming SNAP Payment Dates: Up to $1,751 for Those Who Qualify
- Alabama: July 4-23
- Alaska: July 1
- Arizona: July 1st -13th
- Arkansas: July 4-13
- California: From July 1st to 10th
- Colorado: July 1st -10th
- Connecticut: July 1-3
- Delaware: From July 2nd to 23rd
- District of Columbia: July 1st -10th
- Florida: From July 1st to 28th
- Georgia: from 5 to 23 July
- Guam: From July 1st to 10th
- Hawaii: July 3rd -5th
- Idaho: July 1st -10th
- Illinois: July 1st – 20th
- Indiana: July 5th – 23rd
- Iowa: July 1-10
- Kansas: July 1st-10th
- Kentucky: July 1-19
- Louisiana: July 1st – 23rd
- Maine: July 10th-14th
- Maryland: July 4-23
- Massachusetts: July 1st -14th
- Michigan: July 3rd – 21st
- Minnesota: July 4-13
- Mississippi: July 4th – 21st
- Missouri: July 1st – 22nd
- Montana: July 2nd-6th
- Nebraska: July 1st -5th
- Nevada: July 1st to 10th
- New Hampshire: July 5
- New Jersey: July 1st -5th
- New Mexico: July 1st – 20th
- New York: from 1 to 9 July
- North Carolina: July 3rd – 21st
- North Dakota: July 1
- Ohio: July 2nd -20th
- Oklahoma: July 1st -10th
- Oregon: July 1st -9th
- Pennsylvania: July 3rd -14th
- Puerto Rico: July 4th to July 22nd
- Rhode Island: July 1
- South Carolina: July 1st – 19th
- South Dakota: July 10
- Tennessee: July 1-20
- Texas: July 1st – 28th
- Utah: July 5th, 11th and 15th
- Virgin Islands: July 1
- Vermont: July 1
- Virginia: July 1st -7th
- Washington: From 1 to 20 July
- West Virginia: July 1st -9th
- Wisconsin: July 1st -15th
- Wyoming: From the 1st to the 4th of July
How Much Will my EBT Card Receive?
Remember that not all beneficiaries receive the same amount of money. Many factors are involved in determining how much money a household can receive, such as income, the resources they have (such as savings, properties, vehicles, investments, etc.) and also the number of people who make up the household. These are the maximum SNAP benefits values between one and eight members until September 30, 2024:
- One-member household: $291
- Two-member household: $535
- Three-member household: $766
- Four-member household: $973
- Five-member household: $1,155
- Six-member household: $1,386
- Seven-member household: $1,532
- Eight-member household: $1,751
- For each additional member: $219 extra per person.
