One of the big differences in SNAP Food Stamps monthly checks from other United States benefits is the timing of the payments. While Social Security payments, for example, follow a federal schedule, Food Stamp payments follow a state schedule. This means that each state handles payments of this benefit differently.
Therefore, a SNAP Food Stamps recipient in California will not get a payment on the same day as one in Wyoming. It will all depend on the internal calendar that each state has. So regardless of the number of family members, the payment will arrive sooner or later if we live in a particular state.
If you want to know the complete schedule of payments of this benefit, the good thing is that you can. This way we could organize our economy in a direct way and know on which day of the month we can have the SNAP Food Stamps money available to go to any of the participating establishments to buy the necessary food for our family.
SNAP Food Stamps payment schedule for January
If we have the benefit accepted, we will be able to get the payment in the next few weeks. The January calendar is still in effect, but the last day of payment will be the 28th for SNAP Food Stamps checks. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind that after that day the new February calendar will begin, which means that the payment days will be different.
Below we will look at all the States and the days on which they send out SNAP checks:
- Alabama: January 4-23
- Alaska: January 1
- Arizona: January 1-13
- Arkansas: January 4-13
- California: January 1-10
- Colorado: January 1-10
- Connecticut: January 1-3
- Delaware: January 2-23
- The District of Columbia: January 1-10
- Florida: January 1-28
- Georgia: January 5-23
- Guam: January 1-10
- Hawaii: January 3 and January 5
- Idaho: January 1-10
- Illinois: January 1-10
- Indiana: January 5-23
- Iowa: January 1-10
- Kansas: January 1-10
- Kentucky: January 1-19
- Louisiana: January 1-23
- Maine: January 10-14
- Maryland: January 4-23
- Massachusetts: January 1-14
- Michigan: January 3-21
- Minnesota: January 4-13
- Mississippi: January 4-21
- Missouri: January 1-22
- Montana: January 2-6
- Nebraska: January 1-5
- Nevada: January 1-10
- New Hampshire: January 5
- New Jersey: January 1-5
- New Mexico: January 1-20
- New York: January 1-9
- North Carolina: January 3-21
- North Dakota: January 1
- Ohio: January 2-20
- Oklahoma: January 1-10
- Oregon: January 1-9
- Pennsylvania: over the first 10 business days in January (no holidays or weekends)
- Rhode Island: January 1
- South Carolina: January 1-10
- South Dakota: January 10
- Tennessee: January 1-20
- Texas: January 1-28
- The U.S. Virgin Islands: January 1
- Utah: January 5, 11 and 15
- Vermont: January 1
- Virginia: January 1-7
- Washington: January 1-20
- West Virginia: January 1-9
- Wisconsin: January 1-15
- Wyoming: January 1-4
In order to know 100% if we have the SNAP Food Stamps money available we simply have to check the balance of the EBT card. Once the balance appears with this month’s money included, we will have the payment available to buy what we need.
After the 28th day we will have to wait until February, but the money will still be available if we have not spent it. So organize your calendar, your money and your payments so that your family of four has enough money to buy food thanks to SNAP Food Stamps.