The United States Cost of Living Adjustment does not only affect Social Security benefits, despite what many Americans think. The COLA can also have an effect on other benefits such as SNAP Food Stamps and other different payments. So any citizen may have an interest in what the COLA increase will be each year.
Of course, unlike Social Security benefits, the SNAP Food Stamps COLA does not increase at the beginning of the year. The Food Stamps increase is made each year at the beginning of the tax year. This means that it is in October when the USDA makes an estimate of the increase in benefits. While this is true, it also doesn’t affect the day to day lives of citizens who get this payment too much, at least it doesn’t affect it in a negative way.
Citizens who receive a SNAP Food Stamps check know that each month they will get payment, unless they fail to meet the established requirements. For that reason, if we add to that the COLA increase, in the end they will have more money in the last months of the year and, therefore, they will be able to have a better economic organization at home, something fundamental for Americans.
STATES THAT SEND SNAP FOOD STAMPS WITH THE COLA IN DECEMBER
To tell the truth, all states have already started paying SNAP Food Stamps checks with the 2024 COLA added. This COLA was announced last October and since then any payment related to this benefit has had this 3.2% added to it.
In this regard, we should check well the payment schedule for this financial help, as some States have already stopped sending payments for December and therefore for the entire year 2024.
If you live in a State that has already closed the payment schedule and you have not yet received it you will have to claim the check, so check well when you could get the SNAP Food Stamps in December:
- 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
Remember that the 3.2% COLA is already added to the new checks you will get in December. In order to check if you already have the payment the best thing to do is to check the EBT card and the balance of money you have on it.