The big difference between SNAP Food Stamps checks and other benefits lies primarily in the timing. Recipients in the United States with this accepted benefit may get payment on different days depending on where they live. For that reason, some Americans already enjoy this check and others do not yet have it in their pocket.
And in this sense, it does not matter the year of claiming the benefit or anything like that, as it happens with Social Security. Each State handles its beneficiaries’ SNAP Food Stamps checks the way it prefers. Some states even send all benefit checks to all recipients on the same 1st of the month.
However, other states may send these checks on different days throughout the entire calendar month. That’s why it’s important to know the timing of the payments on these checks. If we know what day we will get SNAP Food Stamps, we will be able to better plan our families and our finances at all times.
States that send SNAP Food Stamps early
By looking at the calendar we will be able to know whether or not we will get a SNAP Food Stamps check soon. Remember that each state has its own calendar and each state has its own rules.
This is the complete SNAP Food Stamps payment schedule for May:
- Alabama: May 4 to 23
- Alaska: May 1
- Arizona: May 1 to 13
- Arkansas: May 4 to 13
- California: May 1 to 10
- Colorado: May 1 to 10
- Connecticut: May 1 to 3
- Delaware: May 2 to 23
- District of Columbia: May 1 to 10
- Florida: May 1 to 28
- Georgia: May 5 to 23
- Guam: May 1 to 10
- Hawaii: May 3 to 5
- Idaho: May 1 to 10
- Illinois: May 1 to 10
- Indiana: May 5 to 23
- Iowa: May 1 to 10
- Kansas: May 1 to 10
- Kentucky: May 1 to 19
- Louisiana: May 1 to 23
- Maine: May 10-14
- Maryland: May 4 to 23
- Massachusetts: May 1 to 14
- Michigan: May 3 to 21
- Minnesota: May 4 to 13
- Mississippi: May 4 to 21
- Missouri: May 1 to 22
- Montana: May 2 to 6
- Nebraska: May 1 to 5
- Nevada: May 1 to 10
- New Hampshire: May 5
- New Jersey: May 1 to 5
- New Mexico: May 1 to 20
- New York: May 1 to 9
- North Carolina: May 3 to 21
- North Dakota: May 1
- Ohio: May 2 to 20
- Oklahoma: May 1 to 10
- Oregon: May 1 to 9
- Pennsylvania: May 3 to 14
- Puerto Rico: May 4 to May 22
- Rhode Island: May 1
- South Carolina: May 1 to 10
- South Dakota: May 10
- Tennessee: May 1 to 20
- Texas: May 1 to 28
- Utah: May 5, 11 and 15
- Virgin Islands: May 1
- Vermont: May 1
- Virginia: May 1 to 7
- Washington: May 1 to 20
- West Virginia: May 1 to 9
- Wisconsin: May 1 to 15
- Wyoming: May 1 to 4
Thanks to this calendar we can see that states like Virginia or Wyoming have already sent all the SNAP Food Stamps checks, but other states like Missouri or Maryland can still send the payments of this benefit in the month of May. To check if we have the money available the best thing to do is to check the balance of the EBT card.