The United States sends SNAP Food Stamps payments on different days depending on their calendar. Payments for this benefit arrive earlier or later depending on the State in which we live. This is a big difference from other payments like Social Security retirement, for example.
So, depending on the State in which we live, we will be able to enjoy the SNAP Food Stamps check earlier, although the truth is that if we have the benefit accepted, we will get it every month without any problems. Just by checking the payment schedule and taking a look at our EBT card balance we can find out if we can already use the benefit money for what we need.
States sending SNAP Food Stamps payments coming up in May
In order to see everything more clearly, the best thing to do is to look at the full SNAP Food Stamps payment schedule. This way we can determine if we should already have the benefit money available on our EBT card.
The benefit payments will arrive in these states on the following dates:
- 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
The best way to find out if we already have SNAP Food Stamps money available is to check the EBT card balance. To do this, some states have an APP available. But if our state does not have it, we can go to an affiliated establishment and ask for help in this regard.