One of the big differences that the United States SNAP food stamp benefit has with other benefits is that the timing is different in each of the states. This means that Idaho’s payments do not arrive on the same days as Indiana’s, for example. However, there are some states where these payment days may coincide.
However, in these cases, it is common for some Americans to receive their payment while others do not have their money yet. This can be a disadvantage, but the truth is that citizens who have accepted a SNAP Food Stamps benefit can rest assured that they will get their payment every month.
Whether they get their benefit sooner or later depends on the state they live in, but financial organization in the family can be the key to having money for the entire month. So if you know what day your SNAP food stamps may arrive, you can organize the money your household will have before the end of the month.
With this in mind, it is much easier to organize our shopping. For example, if we know that we will have SNAP Food Stamps available on the 15th of each month, we know that we can shop at any participating store until then.
Which states are sending out SNAP food stamps in the next few days?
Before the end of January, many states will mail a new food stamp check to recipients. This new check can only be used at certain stores. Remember, this type of benefit is intended to help Americans buy food.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at the states that will be sending out new checks in the near future:
- Alabama: January 4-23
- Delaware: January 2-23
- Florida: January 1-28
- Georgia: January 5-23
- Indiana: January 5-23
- Louisiana: January 1-23
- Maryland: January 4-23
- Texas: January 1-28
Living in one of these states means that we will be receiving SNAP food stamps soon and that it is impossible to have received them before. However, it is also true that if we live in the other states, we may not have received our January check yet. The payment could be on its way or delayed in some way.
The best way to determine whether or not we should have received the payment is to check the complete payment schedule. Only then can we find out if our state has stopped sending these payments in January.
Full Food Stamps Calendar for January
If we want to know if our state has already sent a check or not, we just need to look at the payment calendar. By looking at our state, we will be able to find out on which days of the month it has sent SNAP Food Stamps.
- 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
Now you know all the days that each state has sent out SNAP food stamp payments. If you have not received your payment, but it turns out that the calendar has already ended, then you need to claim your benefit as soon as possible because there must be some problem with it.