People who are eligible for SNAP benefits get payouts every month. However, not everyone gets their payment on the same day. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program helps Americans who have little or no money and might not be able to meet their basic food needs without extra help.
Electronic benefit transfer cards, which look like bank cards, are used to send money to beneficiaries. Every month, money is added to them, and they can be used at any store in the country that accepts them. Even though federal money is used, each state or county agency makes the payment.
SNAP benefit payments of $1,800 will reach beneficiaries’s accounts in October.
Beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program can get access to the monthly payment plan per state thanks to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
This is where they can find all the confirmed payment dates based on the state they live in. It’s important to note that a person’s monthly SNAP benefit date changes based on what state or territory they live in. The following times in October are when SNAP benefits should be sent:
- Alabama: October 4 to 23
- Alaska: October 1
- Arizona: October 1 to 13
- Arkansas: October 4 to 13
- California: October 1 to 10
- Colorado: October 1 to 10
- Connecticut: October 1 to 3
- Delaware: October 2 to 23
- District of Columbia: October 1 to 10
- Florida: October 1 to 28
- Georgia: October 5 to 23
- Guam: October 1 to 10
- Hawaii: October 3 to 5
- Idaho: October 1 to 10
- Illinois: October 1 to 20
- Indiana: October 5 to 23
- Iowa: October 1 to 10
- Kansas: October 1 to 10
- Kentucky: October 1 to 19
- Louisiana: October 1 to 23
- Maine: October 10 to 14
- Maryland: October 4 to 23
- Massachusetts: October 1 to 14
- Michigan: October 3 to 21
- Minnesota: October 4 to 13
- Mississippi: October 4 to 21
- Missouri: October 1 to 22
- Montana: October 2 to 6
- Nebraska: October 1 to 5
- Nevada: October 1 to 10
- New Hampshire: October 5
- New Jersey: October 1 to 5
- New Mexico: October 1 to 20
- New York: October 1 to 9
- North Carolina: October 3 to 21
- North Dakota: October 1
- Ohio: October 2 to 20
- Oklahoma: October 1 to 10
- Oregon: October 1 to 9
- Pennsylvania: October 3 to 14
- Puerto Rico: October 4 to 22
- Rhode Island: October 1
- South Carolina: October 1 to 19
- South Dakota: October 10
- Tennessee: October 1 to 20
- Texas: October 1 to 28
- Utah: October 5, 11 and 15
- Vermont: October 1
- Virgin Islands: October 1
- Virginia: October 1 to 7
- Washington: October 1 to 20
- West Virginia: October 1 to 9
- Wisconsin: October 1 to 15
- Wyoming: October 1 to 4
How much money will eligible households get in SNAP benefit payments next month?
Millions of eligible people and families get their SNAP benefits every month, which they use to buy healthy food and improve their general health.
Still, people who want to get these government benefits must first meet some requirements, such as having a monthly net and gross income that is less than or equal to the maximum amounts. Remember that for the SNAP program, a family is anyone who lives with you and helps you buy and cook food.
You can still get SNAP benefits if you are homeless, even if you don’t have an address, a place to live, or a place to cook food. You are homeless if you don’t have a permanent place to sleep at night or if your main place to sleep at night is a temporary place in one of the following:
- Supervised shelter.
- Halfway house.
- The residence of another person.
- Place not meant for ordinary sleeping, such as a corridor, bus station, or lobby
If you are accepted, the program will send you SNAP benefits based on how many people live in your home. The latest payment amounts are shown below. These amounts go up every year based on the cost of living adjustment (COLA).
| Members of the household | SNAP benefit amount |
| 1 | $292 |
| 2 | $536 |
| 3 | $768 |
| 4 | $975 |
| 5 | $1,158 |
| 6 | $1,390 |
| 7 | $1,536 |
| 8 | $1,756 |
| Additional person | $220 |