SNAP Food Stamps payments have a very special schedule for beneficiaries in the United States. Unlike other benefits such as Social Security, SNAP food stamp checks arrive on different days depending on the state in which you live.
Thus, a beneficiary in California may get his or her SNAP Food Stamps payment much earlier than a beneficiary living in Wyoming, for example. In order to keep track of this information, we always need to keep this payment schedule in mind.
If we know the days on which the State in which we live sends SNAP Food Stamps checks, we will be more financially stable. At the end of the day, the purpose of this benefit is to help the neediest Americans financially.
The SNAP Food Stamps payment is primarily used to purchase food. The ultimate goal is always to provide low-income Americans with the ability to buy some fresh food each month. And in some states we will no longer have new mailings of these checks until next month.
Which states are not sending new SNAP Food Stamps payments in March?
If you live in one of the following states and have not yet received SNAP Food Stamps, you may need to claim the payment. The checks for this benefit have already gone out to the EBT cards held by your beneficiaries.
These are the states that have already sent out all the checks for this benefit in March 2024:
- Alaska: March 1
- Arizona: March 1 to 13
- Arkansas: March 4 to 13
- California: March 1 to 10
- Colorado: March 1 to 10
- Connecticut: March 1 to 3
- District of Columbia: March 1 to 10
- Guam: March 1 to 10
- Hawaii: March 3 to 5
- Idaho: March 1 to 10
- Illinois: March 1 to 10
- Iowa: March 1 to 10
- Kansas: March 1 to 10
- Kentucky: March 1 to 19
- Maine: March 10 to 14
- Massachusetts: March 1 to 14
- Minnesota: March 4 to 13
- Montana: March 2 to 6
- Nebraska: March 1 to 5
- Nevada: March 1 to 10
- New Hampshire: March 5
- New Jersey: March 1 to 5
- New York: March 1 to 9
- North Dakota: March 1
- Oklahoma: March 1 to 10
- Oregon: March 1 to 9
- Pennsylvania: March 1 to 10
- Rhode Island: March 1
- South Carolina: March 1 to 10
- South Dakota: March 10
- Utah: March 5, 11 and 15
- Virgin Islands: March 1
- Vermont: March 1
- Virginia: March 1 to 7
- West Virginia: March 1 to 9
- Wisconsin: March 1 to 15
- Wyoming: March 1 to 4
The States that are not on this list have not finished paying all the SNAP Food Stamps checks. Even so, it is certain that they have already sent a portion of these checks, so even if you live in those States, you could still have the money available on the EBT card.