One of the great advantages of getting United States SNAP Food Stamps every month is that we can have a little extra money to buy fresh food. At the end of the day, the purpose of this benefit is for Americans to have access to buy food every month.
If we are single, the check will always be smaller than for a family, but it will still reach our household. SNAP Food Stamps checks are larger the more family members there are in a household, but there is no minimum number of people required to apply.
And unlike Social Security payments, SNAP Food Stamps checks arrive throughout the month, as each state sends out payments on different days. And in the case of some States they have already sent out all the checks, so they won’t send out new payments until January.
If you have a SNAP Food Stamps benefit accepted, you should know that as of today you could have the money already available. Some states have already sent out all the checks, which means that people in those states will no longer be sending out new checks. In this case we must check our EBT card to know if we have gotten the money or not.
WHICH STATES WILL NOT SEND ANY MORE SNAP FOOD STAMPS UNTIL JANUARY?
While it is true that these states have already sent the check, which means that we did collect this payment in December, as of today they will no longer send another one. The biggest difference between one state and another is that the handling of sending these payments is completely individual. Thus, one state can send all SNAP Food Stamps on a single day and another state can send them throughout the month.
As of today, these states have already sent all payments:
- 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
- District of Columbia: December 1 to 10
- Hawaii: December 3 to 5
- Idaho: December 1 to 10
- Iowa: December 1 to 10
- Kansas: December 1 to 10
- Kentucky: December 1 to 19
- Maine: December 10 to 14
- Massachusetts: December 1 to 14
- Minnesota: December 4 to 13
- 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 York: December 1 to 9
- North Dakota: December 1
- 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
- Utah: December 5, 11, and 15
- Vermont: December 1
- Virginia: December 1 to 7
- West Virginia: December 1 to 9
- Wisconsin: December 1 to 15
- Wyoming: December 1 to 4
If you live in one of these states and have not yet received this month’s payment, you may need to claim it. But before you do, check your EBT card for SNAP Food Stamps, as they may have arrived recently.
COMPLETE FOOD STAMP SCHEDULE FOR DECEMBER
If you want to look at the full schedule of SNAP food Stamps payments in December 2023 this is possible. Still, as each state has its own rules for sending in payments in the end the dates are indicative.
Here are all the states with all the dates you can send in your December Food Stamps:
- 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
After this calendar we will have to wait a little while to receive the January calendar to check on which day we will be able to receive the SNAP Food Stamps in the first month of the year 2024.