SNAP Payment Schedule 2026–27: Every State’s Deposit Dates

Short answer

SNAP does not pay on one national day.

Every state runs its own monthly payment window.

Your day inside that window depends on your case details.

Find your state in the table below first.

Then use the “what decides your day” column for your state.

That gives you your scheduled day, or the closest confirmed rule.

Always confirm your exact date in your official state portal.

Your approval letter also records your own schedule.

A window is a range of days, not your personal date.

Every state’s SNAP payment window, 2026–27

This table covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Most rows are confirmed on a current state agency source.

Eight states are only partly confirmed on current official pages.

Those rows say plainly what is not published, and why.

Delaware is handled differently again, for a separate reason.

Its table cells point to the Delaware note below the table.

State	Monthly window	What decides your day
Alabama	4th–23rd	Last two digits of case number (00–04 = 4th … 95–99 = 23rd)
Alaska	1st (all households)	No household-level basis — all households on the 1st
Arizona	Added before the 14th — full window not published on a current DES page	Last-name basis confirmed in the DES manual — letter-to-day table not state-published; check your approval letter or portal
Arkansas	4th–13th (8 issuance days: 4th, 5th, 8th–13th)	Last digit of Social Security Number
California	1st–10th	Last digit of county case number (1 = 1st … 0 = 10th)
Colorado	1st–10th	Last digit of recipient’s Social Security Number
Connecticut	1st–8th (from March 1, 2026)	Last two digits of Client ID (00–12 = 1st … 88–99 = 8th)
Delaware	See the Delaware note below	See the Delaware note below
District of Columbia	1st–10th	First letter of last name
Florida	1st–28th	9th and 8th digits of case number, read backwards, dropping the 10th digit
Georgia	5th–23rd	Last two digits of client ID (00–09 = 5th … 90–99 = 23rd, odd days)
Hawaii	3rd and 5th	First letter of last name (A–I = 3rd, J–Z = 5th)
Idaho	1st–10th	Last digit of birth year
Illinois	1st–20th	Day-mapping not published on current IDHS pages — check your approval letter or official portal
Indiana	5th–23rd (odd days only)	First letter of recipient’s last name
Iowa	1st–10th	First letter of last name of the case-name person
Kansas	1st–10th	First letter of last name
Kentucky	1st–19th	Last digit of head of household’s Social Security Number (0 = 1st … 9 = 19th, odd days)
Louisiana	1st–23rd	Last digit of Social Security Number; elderly or disabled recipients 1st–4th
Maine	10th–14th	Last digit of recipient’s birth day
Maryland	4th–23rd	First three letters of last name
Massachusetts	1st–14th	Last digit of recipient’s Social Security Number (or DTA-assigned number)
Michigan	3rd–21st (odd days only)	Last digit of participant’s Bridges ID number
Minnesota	4th–13th	Last digit of case number
Mississippi	4th–21st	Last two digits of case number
Missouri	1st–22nd	Birth month and first letter of last name
Montana	2nd–6th	Ending digit of Office of Public Assistance case number (0 or 1 = 2nd … 8 or 9 = 6th)
Nebraska	1st–5th	Last digit of head of household’s Social Security Number
Nevada	1st–10th	Last digit of head of household’s birth year
New Hampshire	5th (all households)	No household-level basis — single date for all households
New Jersey	First five days of the month	Case number, under staggered issuance — digit pairings not state-published; check your approval letter or portal
New Mexico	1st–20th	Last two digits of head of household’s Social Security Number
New York	Upstate 1st–9th; New York City first two weeks, moving dates	Last digit of case number (New York City: the same digit, called the toe digit)
North Carolina	3rd–21st (odd days only)	Last digit of primary cardholder’s Social Security Number
North Dakota	1st (all households)	No household-level basis — single date for all households
Ohio	Staggered through the 20th	Day-mapping not state-published — your county must inform you of your date; check your approval letter or portal
Oklahoma	1st, 5th and 10th	Last digit of case number (0–3 = 1st, 4–6 = 5th, 7–9 = 10th)
Oregon	1st–9th	Last digit of Social Security Number (0 or 1 = 1st … 9 = 9th)
Pennsylvania	First 10 business days of the month	Last digit of the 7-digit case record number; counties run one, two or ten payment-day cycles
Rhode Island	1st (all households)	No household-level basis — single date for all households
South Carolina	2nd–19th (pre-September 2012 cases: 1st–10th)	Last digit of SNAP case number, on the post-2012 schedule
South Dakota	10th (all households)	No household-level basis — all ongoing households on the 10th
Tennessee	1st–20th	Last two digits of the Social Security Number used during application
Texas	1st–28th	Last two digits of SNAP EDG number; households certified before May 1, 2023 keep their existing schedule
Utah	5th, 11th and 15th	First letter of last name (A–G = 5th, H–O = 11th, P–Z = 15th)
Vermont	Same date each month — current DCF page does not name the date	No basis published on the current DCF page — check your approval letter or official portal
Virginia	1st, 4th or 7th only	Case mapping not confirmed in a current VDSS source — check your approval letter or official portal
Washington	1st–20th	No formula published — your specific day is in your approval letter
West Virginia	1st–9th	First letter of last name
Wisconsin	2nd–15th	Eighth digit of client’s Social Security Number
Wyoming	Not found on a current DFS page	Window and mapping not found on a current DFS page — check your approval letter or official portal

Source & Last Checked

Last checked: October 24, 2026 against USDA FNS and state agency sources.

Source: USDA Food and Nutrition Service and the state agency for each state.

Rows marked “not published” or “not found” reflect that check honestly.

We re-check this schedule every month and log any change.

The Delaware note — why no Delaware day table appears here

Delaware is the one state we are not summarising in a table row.

That is deliberate, and it is worth explaining plainly.

Official Delaware sources currently describe different schedules.

The Delaware Administrative Code glossary describes a seven-day stagger.

That stagger starts on the fifth calendar day of the month.

It is based on the last name of the head of the case.

A Delaware release from 2019 described a different range, the 2nd to the 17th.

An older USDA table described another range, the 2nd to the 23rd.

None of those three versions is confirmed on a current DHSS page.

The current Delaware Health and Social Services SNAP page states no schedule.

So printing any one version as fact would risk misleading Delaware households.

We are not printing a Delaware day table until DHSS publishes one.

If you live in Delaware, check your case in the official Delaware portal.

Your approval notice is the other reliable record of your day.

We will update this section as soon as DHSS confirms a schedule.

Eight states where the full day table is not state-published

For most states, a current official page confirms everything above.

For the eight states below, part of the picture is missing.

We print only what a current official source actually confirms.

We do not fill the gaps from an old federal table.

An older mapping may turn out to be right, or wrong.

Until the state publishes it, we will not present it as fact.

Arizona

The Arizona DES policy manual confirms a last-name basis.

It also confirms benefits are added before the 14th day.

No fetched DES page publishes a letter-to-day table.

So we do not print which letter lands on which day.

Check your approval letter or your official Arizona account.

Illinois

An Illinois DHS client notice confirms a 1st to 20th window.

Its wording is “regular availability date, 1st through 20th of month.”

No current IDHS page we found publishes the day-mapping.

Older federal material described an Individual ID basis and a legacy split.

That split is not stated on the current IDHS pages checked.

So your Illinois day must come from IDHS, not this table.

New Jersey

Current New Jersey regulation confirms the window in general terms.

Regulation NJAC 10:88-3.3 covers staggered issuance in the first five days.

It links the day to the household’s case number.

It also links it to the county agency’s staggered procedures.

The regulation does not publish digit pairings for those five days.

So we do not print which case digits land on which day.

Ohio

An Ohio DJFS bulletin confirms benefits are staggered through the 20th.

Ohio rule also says the county must inform each group of its date.

No fetched Ohio page publishes a start day or a day-mapping.

Older federal material described an even-days, last-digit pattern.

That pattern is not on a current Ohio page we found.

Your county notice or approval letter is the reliable source.

Vermont

The current Vermont DCF page says benefits arrive on the same date each month.

It does not name that date on the page checked.

Older and indirect material points toward the 1st, without confirming it.

A shutdown notice and an older hearing order are not evergreen proof.

So we print the DCF wording, and nothing stronger than that.

Confirm your date in your official Vermont account or approval letter.

Virginia

A Virginia DSS release from January 2023 confirms three issuance days.

Those days are the 1st, the 4th and the 7th only.

The case-number mapping for those days comes from older policy.

A 2019 Virginia EBT policy document states a full mapping.

A 2017 training page states a different table for some converted cases.

Because those older sources conflict, we print no Virginia mapping here.

Wyoming

No current Wyoming DFS page we found states a schedule.

We found no official window and no official letter mapping.

The letter mapping seen elsewhere appears only on non-official sites.

Non-official sites are never a source for a payment day here.

So Wyoming’s row stays blank rather than borrowed or guessed.

Use your approval letter or the official Wyoming portal instead.

Delaware, again, in one line

Delaware also belongs on this partial list, making eight in total.

Its problem is different: official sources conflict with each other.

That is why Delaware gets its own note, above, instead.

Schedules change — and old tables keep circulating

A payment schedule is not permanent, even when it looks settled.

States change windows, change the basis, and grandfather older households.

Old federal PDFs and copied tables keep circulating long afterwards.

That is why this page is re-checked every month.

Three recent changes show exactly how this goes wrong.

Connecticut changed on March 1, 2026

Connecticut used to pay over the 1st to the 3rd.

That old schedule was based on the first letter of a last name.

It still appears in the 2021 USDA issuance document.

Connecticut DSS now states a different schedule on its own page.

From March 1, 2026, issuance runs from the 1st to the 8th.

It is based on the last two digits of the Client ID.

Households using an old Connecticut table would expect the wrong day.

Texas changed in 2023, with grandfathering

Texas now staggers monthly SNAP over the 1st to the 28th.

The current rule is in Texas Works Handbook B-251, revised in 2023.

Your day comes from the last two digits of your EDG number.

But long-standing Texas households may not be on that table.

Households certified before May 1, 2023 keep their existing schedule.

That protection ends only in the circumstances the handbook describes.

One of them is a break in benefits of at least six months.

A Texas reader must therefore check which schedule covers their case.

Kentucky changed what decides the day

Kentucky’s window did not change. It is still the 1st to the 19th.

Kentucky payments still land on odd days within that window.

What changed is the basis — the detail that decides your day.

The 2021 federal table said the last digit of the case number.

The current Kentucky CHFS manual says something different.

It says the last digit of the head of household’s Social Security Number.

Digit 0 means the 1st, digit 1 means the 3rd, and so on.

A Kentuckian using the old basis would look at the wrong number.

Four big states with rules that are easy to get wrong

Florida — read the case number backwards

Florida pays over the widest mainland window, the 1st to the 28th.

Its basis is also the most misreported in the country.

Florida uses the 9th and 8th digits of the case number.

Those two digits are read in that order — backwards, in effect.

The 10th digit of the case number is dropped entirely.

Several non-official pages wrongly simplify this to “last two digits.”

That shortcut produces the wrong Florida day for many households.

New York — New York City is not upstate

Upstate New York pays over a fixed window, the 1st to the 9th.

The last digit of the case number sets the day there.

Digit 0 or 1 means the 1st, and digit 9 means the 9th.

New York City does not use a fixed day of the month.

City postings spread over days in the first two weeks.

Those days exclude Sundays and holidays, and they change every month.

The same case digit, called the toe digit, is used instead.

City households must read it against OTDA’s published pickup schedule.

Never give a New York City household a fixed monthly date.

Pennsylvania — business days, set by county

Pennsylvania does not pay on a fixed set of calendar dates.

It pays over the first 10 business days of the month.

Weekends and holidays are excluded, so calendar dates move monthly.

The last digit of the 7-digit case record number matters.

That digit sets the payment-day cycle for the household.

But counties run one, two or ten payment-day cycles.

So two Pennsylvania households can share a digit and differ.

A single statewide Pennsylvania day table would simply be wrong.

Your county’s cycle is part of your own scheduled day.

South Carolina — two schedules, and the newer one is the main one

South Carolina’s main schedule runs from the 2nd to the 19th.

It covers households applying or re-applying from September 1, 2012.

The last digit of the SNAP case number sets the day.

That mapping is not “digit equals day” on this schedule.

For example, digit 1 means the 11th, not the 1st.

Digit 2 means the 2nd, and digit 0 means the 10th.

Older South Carolina households follow a different, simpler schedule.

Households on SNAP continuously since before September 2012 keep 1st to 10th.

On that older schedule, the digit does match the day.

How to find your exact date in 3 steps

Step 1: Find your state’s window

Start with your state row in the table above.

Note the full window, not just its first day.

The first day of the window is rarely everyone’s day.

In a single-date state, this step alone answers the question.

Alaska, North Dakota and Rhode Island all pay on the 1st.

New Hampshire pays on the 5th, and South Dakota on the 10th.

Step 2: Apply what decides your day

Next, apply your state’s basis to your own case details.

You may need a case number, a Client ID or an EDG number.

You may instead need a Social Security number digit, or a last name.

A few states use a birth day, birth month or birth year.

Use only the detail your own state names in the table.

Do not borrow a neighbouring state’s basis, however similar it looks.

If your row says a mapping is not state-published, stop here.

That instruction is protecting you from a guessed day.

Step 3: Confirm it in your official portal or approval letter

Finally, confirm your day through an official channel.

Your state’s official portal or official EBT account is one route.

Your approval letter is the other, and often the clearest.

Washington prints the household’s day in that letter, for example.

Pennsylvania and New York City schedules also need that local check.

Only your state agency can confirm your own issuance record.

What time of day do benefits arrive?

This page answers the date question, not the time question.

Most states publish a scheduled date, not a time of day.

Only a small number of states state a time officially.

Our companion guide covers those stated times, state by state.

Read what time SNAP benefits hit your EBT card next.

Do not assume a midnight deposit in a state that publishes none.

Common mistakes with payment-date tables

Mistake one: treating the window as your personal date.

A window is the range a state’s payments are spread across.

Your basis inside that window sets your actual day.

Mistake two: using a schedule printed years ago.

Connecticut, Texas and Kentucky all changed in recent years.

An old PDF can be official and still be out of date.

Mistake three: copying another state’s basis.

States use case numbers, ID digits, names and birth details differently.

The state next door is not evidence for your state.

Mistake four: expecting a new schedule to cover every household.

Texas and South Carolina both grandfather older households.

Your certification date can decide which schedule covers you.

Mistake five: filling a gap from a non-official site.

Eight states do not publish a full day table currently.

A confident-looking mapping elsewhere does not make it official.

Mistake six: checking only the amount, never the date rules.

How much you get and when you get it are separate systems.

See SNAP benefit amounts for the amount side.

More date guides sit in Payment Dates & Deposit Times.

Frequently asked questions

Unofficial Disclaimer

Benefit Calendar USA is an unofficial help site.

We are not affiliated with USDA, SNAP or any state agency.

Dates here are general information, checked against official sources.

Always confirm your own date with your official state agency.