SNAP Food Stamps payments are a type of benefit that is very useful for those in the United States who are most in need.
Thanks to this check, Americans who have low incomes can access to buy fresh food and even go to some restaurants. Therefore, this is one of the fairest and most important payments, since it allows them to buy something they really need and does not allow them to buy anything outside a predetermined list.
In this way, the USDA ensures that no one uses SNAP Food Stamps money for purchases other than food. And it is important to be able to know that the money earmarked for this purpose ends up being used for this specific purpose. Even other seemingly useful everyday items cannot be purchased with SNAP money.
But in the case that we have a monthly SNAP Food Stamps check accepted we should not only know the list of things we can buy. It is also important to know on what day of the month each State will send the benefit payments. This is important to know because each State sends the checks on different days. So depending on which State we live in, we may be able to enjoy SNAP payments directly at the beginning of the month or a little later in the month.
When do States send SNAP Food Stamps?
As we have already mentioned, each State handles the sending of these payments differently. Therefore, we have to watch out very carefully for this calendar and mark well in our diary when we will have the money. It could also be the case that we do not get the money on the established day. In that case we should claim the payment as soon as possible.
To get a clearer picture, let’s take a look at the payment schedule for all states. Then we can simply look up our state and determine on which day SNAP Food Stamps will be sent to us:
- 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
This is the January calendar only. With each new month there is a new SNAP Food Stamps payment schedule. However, the best way to know if we have gotten the payment of this benefit is to check the balance of the EBT card. By this method we will have full knowledge of whether we have actually gotten the payment or not. Once we have the money we can spend it in participating establishments.