Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
To get benefits through regular SNAP, households must meet certain tests, including resource and income tests.
Resources: Individuals who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or households including anyone who receives Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP), Kinship Care Subsidy Program (KCSP), or Strategies to Empower People (STEP) Program benefits are exempt from the resource limit. Households not exempt from the resource limit may have up to $3000 in resources, such as a bank account, cash, certificate of deposit (CDs), stocks, and bonds. Non-exempt households that include at least one household member who is age 60 or older or includes a disabled member may have up to $4500 in resources.
Households are not exempt from the resource limit if:
- Any member is disqualified for Intentional Program Violation
- The household is disqualified for failing to comply with work registration requirements.
The following individuals are not exempt from the resource limit:
- An ineligible alien
- An ineligible student
- An individual who is disqualified for failure to comply with work registration requirements
- An individual who is disqualified for failure to provide or apply for a Social Security number
- An individual who is on strike
Income: Households must meet income tests (unless any member is receiving FITAP, KCSP, STEP benefits, or all members are receiving SSI).
Most households must meet both the gross and net income tests, but a household with a person who is 60 years old or older or a person who is receiving certain types of disability payments only has to meet the net income test.
Gross income means a household’s total, non-excluded income, before any deductions have been made. Net income means gross income minus allowable deductions. Households, except those noted, that have income over the amounts listed below cannot get SNAP benefits.
Allotment Amounts: The amount of SNAP a household receives depends on the number of people in the SNAP household and the amount of their net income. The table below shows the maximum SNAP allotments by household size.
Allotment Breakdown
| Household Size | Max Gross Monthly Eligibility Standard 130% Poverty | Max Gross Monthly Eligibility Standard 200% Poverty | Max Net Monthly Income Eligibility Standard | Maximum SNAP Allotment |
| 1 | $1,632 | $2,510 | $1,255 | $292 |
| 2 | $2,215 | $3,407 | $1,704 | $536 |
| 3 | $2,798 | $4,304 | $2,152 | $768 |
| 4 | $3,380 | $5,200 | $2,600 | $975 |
| 5 | $3,963 | $6,097 | $3,049 | $1158 |
| 6 | $4,546 | $6,994 | $3,497 | $1390 |
| 7 | $5,129 | $7,890 | $3,945 | $1536 |
| 8 | $5,712 | $8,787 | $4,394 | $1756 |
| Each additional member | +$583 | +$897 | +$449 | +$220 |
- There are 5 columns in the table. To view all the columns on smartphones with smaller screens, rotate the phone to the horizontal position or scroll the table horizontally ( ↔ ) with a screen drag.
- BroadBased-Categorically Eligible (BBCE) households are required to meet the Maximum Gross Monthly Income Standard of 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) instead of 130% of the FPL.
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