The key dates by state for the extension of food stamps: who collects SNAP in November?
Food vouchers are being handed out like usual though a number of states are continuing with an emergency plan to give extra help.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is designed to supplement the food budget of low-income families to ensure that they can afford to purchase healthy food and avoid periods of food instability. Back in January, 37 states had signed up to make their residents eligible for extra SNAP benefits, as part of the Emergency Allotment (EA) program. However, for November this number has been reduced to 21 states.
The EA benefits do not apply to all recipients, but will instead be used to boost the entitlement of households who would not otherwise be eligible to receive the full amount. If you were not previously receiving the maximum entitlement for your house size then the EA benefits will increase your total monthly benefits.
Under the revised guidance by the Food and Nutrition Service, households who had not been receiving EA payments and those whose EA payments were less than $95 per month saw their benefits increase.
You do not need to do anything to trigger the payment of the extra SNAP support, the additional money will be automatically added to your regular monthly payment.
Which states will send the payments and when?
These states will continue SNAP emergency allotments in November 2022:
- Alabama - between the 4th and 23rd of the month, depending on your case number.
- California - first 10 days of each month, depending on the last digit of your case number.
- Colorado - between the 1st to the 10th of every month, based on the last digit of your SSN.
- District of Columbia
- Hawaii - sent on the 3rd and the 5th of every month, based on the first letter of your last name.
- Illinois - sent on the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th, 17th, and 20th of every month, based on a combination of the type of case and the case name.
- Kansas - sends out benefits over the first 10 calendar days of every month, based on the first letter of your last name.
- Louisiana - sends out benefits between the 1st and the 14th of every month, based on the last digit of your SSN.
- Maryland - sent from the 4th to the 23rd of every month, based on the first letter of your last name.
- Michigan - from the 3rd to the 21st of every month, based on the last two digits of your ID number.
- New Hampshire - the fifth day of every month.
- New Jersey - over the first 5 calendar days of the month, based on the 7th digit of your case number.
- New Mexico - over the first 20 days every month, based on the last two digits of your SSN.
- North Carolina - from the 3rd to the 21st of every month, based on the last digit of your SSN.
- Oklahoma - from the 1st to the 10th of every month, based on the last digit of your case number.
- Oregon - from the 1st to the 9th of every month, based on the last digit of your SSN.
- Rhode Island - the first day of every month.
- South Carolina - the state has a more complicated rollout for payments, listed here.
- Utah - on the 5th, 11th, or 15th of every month, based on the first letter of your last name.
- West Virginia - over the first nine days of every month, based on the first letter of your last name.
- Wisconsin - over the first 15 days of every month, based on the eighth digit of your SSN.