SNAP Food Stamps benefit checks in all parts of the United States follow rules for both the amount of the check and the acceptance of the checks. When a family applies for a SNAP check, they must meet certain requirements.
And each year those requirements may change so that Americans applying for new payments may have to meet additional requirements that were not previously mandatory. In the matter of the amounts the thing is different, since if the checks increase through the COLA all the payments do, both those already granted and those that are not.
But all these changes must be taken into account, since they could interfere with the application for the benefit. While it is true that applying for the check is possible for everyone under any condition, getting it is something different. And for next year we will encounter a change that could cancel some SNAP Food Stamps applications.
CHANGES TO SNAP FOOD STAMPS IN 2024
In the coming year 2024 we will encounter two major changes that will affect SNAP Food Stamps recipients in the United States and Americans who have not yet applied for the check but plan to do so.
On the one hand, the biggest change will come from part of the requirements. If up to now citizens up to 52, adults and non-dependents, had to prove they were working to get the payment as of October 2024 the age will be extended to 54. Therefore, if we are 54 years old or younger we will have to prove we have a job to be able to apply for SNAP Food Stamps.
On the other hand we are faced with the COLA increase for next year. So this increase will depend on several factors and inflation throughout the year, so we have to wait until October to know the exact amount of the increase. What is certain is that we will have the increase in 2024, whether it is higher or lower than previous years.
DECEMBER FOOD STAMP SCHEDULE
Then citizens who have a SNAP Food Stamps check in the United States need to look at the exact calendar for their state as each state sends out checks on different days.
This is the complete schedule of food stamp payments:
- Alabama: December 4 to 23
- Alaska: December 1
- Arizona: December 1 to 13
- Arkansas: December 4 to 13
- California: December 1 to 10
- Colorado: December 1 to 10
- Connecticut: December 1 to 3
- Delaware: December 2 to 23
- District of Columbia: December 1 to 10
- Florida: December 1 to 28
- Georgia: December 5 to 23
- Hawaii: December 3 to 5
- Idaho: December 1 to 10
- Illinois: December 1 to 10 and older cases December 1 to 20
- Indiana: December 5 to 23
- Iowa: December 1 to 10
- Kansas: December 1 to 10
- Kentucky: December 1 to 19
- Louisiana: December 1 to 23
- Maine: December 10 to 14
- Maryland: December 4 to 23
- Massachusetts: December 1 to 14
- Michigan: December 3 to 21
- Minnesota: December 4 to 13
- Mississippi: December 4 to 21
- Missouri: December 1 to 22
- Montana: December 2 to 6
- Nebraska: December 1 to 5
- Nevada: December 1 to 10
- New Hampshire: December 5
- New Jersey: December 1 to 5
- New Mexico: December 1 to 20
- New York: December 1 to 9
- North Carolina: December 3 to 21
- North Dakota: December 1
- Ohio: December 2 to 20
- Oklahoma: December 1 to 10
- Oregon: December 1 to 9
- Pennsylvania: December 3 to 14
- Rhode Island: December 1
- South Carolina: December 1 to 10
- South Dakota: December 10
- Tennessee: December 1 to 20
- Texas: December 1 to 28
- Utah: December 5, 11, and 15
- Vermont: December 1
- Virginia: December 1 to 7
- Washington: December 1 to 20
- West Virginia: December 1 to 9
- Wisconsin: December 1 to 15
- Wyoming: December 1 to 4
If your state’s calendar has already ended you should claim the payment as soon as possible, as you should have the SNAP Food Stamps money on your ebt card.