The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known throughout the United States as food stamps, has as its main objective to keep low-income families away from food risk.
The SNAP program works by granting financial allocations for the purchase of nutritious foods, whether fresh or long-life (canned, flour, preserves, frozen, etc.), and are distributed on different dates in each state, depending on local needs and the state structures to put together the payment framework, among other elements.
These are the payment dates in each state and territory of the United States, agreed for the month of August. You will notice that some states are not on this list because they have already finished sending all payments to their beneficiary populations.
As of August 16, 2024, the following states and territories are still distributing SNAP benefits:
- Alabama: August 4-23
- Delaware: August 2-23
- Florida: August 1 to 28
- Georgia: from 5 to 23 August
- Illinois: August 1st to 20th
- Indiana: August 5th to 23rd
- Kentucky: August 1-19
- Louisiana: August 1-23
- Michigan: August 3-21
- Mississippi: August 4th to 21st
- Missouri: August 1-22
- North Carolina: August 3-21
- Ohio: August 2-20
- Pennsylvania: August 3-14
- Puerto Rico: from August 4 to 22
- Tennessee: August 1st to 20th
- Texas: August 1 to 28
- Utah: August 5, 11 and 15
- Washington: August 1-20
Maximum SNAP Benefits You Can Receive
Until September 30, 2024, the federal government has defined maximums of up to $1,751 per month for families of 8 people, as established with the current year’s cost of living adjustment (COLA).
Below are the maximum allocations for SNAP in the lower 48 states and DC (October 2023 to September 2024), according to the USDA website:
- Household size 1: $291
- Household size 2: $535
- Household size 3: $766
- Household size 4: $973
- Household size 5: $1,155
- Household size 6: $1,386
- Household size 7: $1,532
- Household size 8: $1,751
- Each additional person: $219
All States That Will Send SNAP Benefits in September 2024
Now we can include the complete list of all states and territories that will send food stamp payments starting September 1.
Again, keep in mind that in each state there is a different calendar, with a number of days that is established based on the number of beneficiaries and the requirements that have been defined in each state.
SNAP benefits will be paid on or between the following dates in each state and territory:
- Alabama: August 4-23
- Alaska: August 1
- Arizona: August 1st to 13th
- Arkansas: August 4-13
- California: August 1-10
- Colorado: August 1-10
- Connecticut: August 1-3
- Delaware: August 2-23
- District of Columbia: August 1-10
- Florida: August 1 to 28
- Georgia: from 5 to 23 August
- Guam: August 1-10
- Hawaii: August 3-5
- Idaho: August 1-10
- Illinois: August 1st to 20th
- Indiana: August 5th to 23rd
- Iowa: Aug. 1-10
- Kansas: August 1-10
- Kentucky: August 1-19
- Louisiana: August 1-23
- Maine: August 10-14
- Maryland: August 4-23
- Massachusetts: August 1st to 14th
- Michigan: August 3-21
- Minnesota: August 4th to 13th
- Mississippi: August 4th to 21st
- Missouri: August 1-22
- Montana: from 2nd to 6th August
- Nebraska: August 1st to 5th
- Nevada: August 1 to 10
- New Hampshire: August 5
- New Jersey: August 1-5
- New Mexico: August 1-20
- New York: August 1 to 9
- North Carolina: August 3-21
- North Dakota: August 1st
- Ohio: August 2-20
- Oklahoma: August 1-10
- Oregon: August 1-9
- Pennsylvania: August 3-14
- Puerto Rico: August 4 to August 22
- Rhode Island: August 1
- South Carolina: August 1-19
- South Dakota: August 10
- Tennessee: August 1st to 20th
- Texas: August 1 to 28
- Utah: August 5, 11 and 15
- Virgin Islands: August 1
- Vermont: August 1
- Virginia: August 1-7
- Washington: August 1-20
- West Virginia: August 1-9
- Wisconsin: August 1-15
- Wyoming: August 1-4
