These monthly payments end in November, regardless of whether you refer to them as SNAP, Food Stamps, or even CalFresh in California. In order to plan your grocery shopping starting on the day you receive your benefits from the US Department of Agriculture, it is therefore necessary to create the December budget.
Payments for SNAP benefits may be made to all eligible participants on a single paycheck, depending on the state in which you currently reside, or they may take up to 28 days if you presently reside in Texas or Florida.
The full list of states that will be providing SNAP benefits in early December
It is actually true that only two states will not begin SNAP payments in the first week of December. South Dakota and Maine are those states. Food Stamps will be issued by South Dakota on December 10 alone, whereas Maine will deposit funds into EBT cards from December 10–14.
| State/Territory | Schedule (December) |
| Alabama | 4 to 23 |
| Alaska | 1 |
| Arizona | 1 to 13 |
| Arkansas | 4 to 13 |
| California | 1 to 10 |
| Colorado | 1 to 10 |
| Connecticut | 1 to 3 |
| Delaware | 2 to 23 |
| Florida | 1 to 28 |
| Georgia | 5 to 23 |
| Hawaii | 3 to 5 |
| Idaho | 1 to 10 |
| Illinois | 1 to 10 |
| Indiana | 5 to 23 |
| Iowa | 1 to 10 |
| Kansas | 1 to 10 |
| Kentucky | 1 to 19 |
| Louisiana | 1 to 23 |
| Maryland | 4 to 23 |
| Massachusetts | 1 to 14 |
| Michigan | 3 to 21 |
| Minnesota | 4 to 13 |
| Mississippi | 4 to 21 |
| Missouri | 1 to 22 |
| Montana | 2 to 6 |
| Nebraska | 1 to 5 |
| Nevada | 1 to 10 |
| New Hampshire | 5 |
| New Jersey | 1 to 5 |
| New Mexico | 1 to 20 |
| New York | 1 to 9 |
| North Carolina | 3 to 21 |
| North Dakota | 1 |
| Ohio | 2 to 20 |
| Oklahoma | 1 to 10 |
| Oregon | 1 to 9 |
| Pennsylvania | First 10 business days |
| Rhode Island | 1 |
| South Carolina | 1 to 10 |
| Tennessee | 1 to 20 |
| Texas | 1 to 28 |
| Utah | 5, 11, and 15 |
| Vermont | 1 |
| Virginia | 1 to 7 |
| Washington | 1 to 20 |
| West Virginia | 1 to 9 |
| Wisconsin | 1 to 15 |
| Wyoming | 1 to 4 |
| Guam | 1 to 10 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 to 22 |
| The District of Columbia | 1 to 10 |
| The U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 |
December 2024 SNAP amounts
This will continue through September 30, 2025, therefore the maximum amounts for December 2024 will not change. The maximum SNAP benefit for an individual in the 48 contiguous states is $292.
Larger families will be the ones that are eligible to get the highest benefit payout. You can receive up to $1,756 if you are eight years old. The state that will send the biggest benefit payouts is Alaska once again.
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Individuals and families with eight members will receive up to $586 and $3,516 respectively in Alaska’s Rural 2 districts. The U.S. Virgin Islands, Hawaii, and Guam also make greater amounts because of higher inflation.
