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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will be distributed to recipients throughout March 2025. When will you get your payments?
Why It Matters
SNAP benefits—also known as "food stamps"—are administered nationwide to low- and no-income households that would otherwise struggle to purchase groceries. In 2023, the program served an average of 42.1 million people per month, or 12.6 percent of U.S. residents. On average, SNAP recipients will receive an estimated $187 per month—about $6.16 per day—per person in benefits in fiscal year 2025.
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Benefits are uploaded to electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards that can be used at approved retailers and in some online stores.
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What To Know
Benefits are paid in a lump sum every month to recipients, but not everyone gets their payment on the same date.
SNAP benefits, while paid for by the federal government, are administered by state and local authorities. This means that payment days vary across the country.
In certain states, the timing of benefit distribution is linked to the recipient's case number. For example, in California, those with case numbers ending in 01 will receive their benefits earlier in the month than those ending in 99.
However, states like Connecticut and Delaware distribute benefits according to the initial letter of the recipient's last name. In contrast, states with smaller populations, like Alaska and South Dakota, process all SNAP payments on a designated day.
Here are the payment dates and ranges for each state for March 2025:
- Alabama: March 4 to 23
- 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
- Delaware: March 2 to 23
- District of Columbia: March 1 to 10
- Florida: March 1 to 28
- Georgia: March 5 to 23
- Guam: March 1 to 10
- Hawaii: March 3 to 5
- Idaho: March 1 to 10
- Illinois: March 1 to 20
- Indiana: March 5 to 23
- Iowa: March 1 to 10
- Kansas: March 1 to 10
- Kentucky: March 1 to 19
- Louisiana: March 1 to 23
- Maine: March 10 to 14
- Maryland: March 4 to 23
- Massachusetts: March 1 to 14
- Michigan: March 3 to 21
- Minnesota: March 4 to 13
- Mississippi: March 4 to 21
- Missouri: March 1 to 22
- 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 Mexico: March 1 to 20
- New York: March 1 to 9
- North Carolina: March 3 to 21
- North Dakota: March 1
- Ohio: March 2 to 20
- Oklahoma: March 1 to 10
- Oregon: March 1 to 9
- Pennsylvania: March 3 to 14
- Puerto Rico: March 4 to March 22
- Rhode Island: March 1
- South Carolina: March 1 to 19
- South Dakota: March 10
- Tennessee: March 1 to 20
- Texas: March 1 to 28
- Utah: March 5, 11 and 15
- Virgin Islands: March 1
- Vermont: March 1
- Virginia: March 1 to 7
- Washington: March 1 to 20
- West Virginia: March 1 to 9
- Wisconsin: March 1 to 15
- Wyoming: March 1 to 4
If you do not receive your payment on the expected date, you should contact your local SNAP administrator.
What's Next
Several changes could be on the way for SNAP recipients, as Republicans move en masse at a state and federal level to potentially restrict purchases on unhealthy foods.
Since being appointed to the Trump administration earlier this month, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has signaled he is in favor of stripping unhealthy foods from SNAP.
"The one place that I would say that we need to really change policy is the SNAP program and food stamps and in school lunches," Kennedy told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "There, the federal government in many cases is paying for it. And we shouldn't be subsidizing people to eat poison."
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