December 2024 SNAP Benefits: What to Expect in Largest Payments
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payment dates for December 2024. States like Texas and Florida will issue their benefits through December 28, 2024. While the 48 contiguous states provide SNAP benefits with a maximum of $292 per individual, some U.S. territories, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam, offer larger payments. Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have already issued their SNAP benefits, leaving Guam as the territory with the largest SNAP payments to be delivered in December.
SNAP Benefits in Guam
Guam offers the highest SNAP benefits for the month of December. For example, a single recipient in Guam will receive $431, and a family of four can receive up to $1,437. A family of eight in Guam can receive up to $2,588.
Guam follows an easy-to-understand system for issuing SNAP benefits based on Social Security Numbers (SSN). For example, recipients whose SSN ends in 8 will receive their benefits on December 8, 2024. Those whose SSN ends in 9 will receive benefits on December 9, and the last group, with SSNs ending in 10, will get their payments on December 10.
Here’s a breakdown of the maximum SNAP amounts in Guam for December 2024:
- 1 beneficiary: $431
- 2 recipients: $790
- 3 recipients: $1,132
- 4 recipients: $1,437
- 5 recipients: $1,707
- 6 recipients: $2,049
- 7 recipients: $2,264
- 8 recipients: $2,588
- Each additional recipient: +$324
Other States’ SNAP Payments in December 2024
SNAP benefits are also being distributed in other U.S. states during December. Here is a list of states and their payment dates:
- Alabama: December 4 to 23
- Arizona: December 1 to 13
- Arkansas: December 4 to 13
- California: December 1 to 10
- Colorado: December 1 to 10
- Delaware: December 2 to 23
- Florida: December 1 to 28
- Georgia: December 5 to 23
- Idaho: December 1 to 10
- Illinois: December 1 to 10
- Indiana: December 5 to 23
- Iowa: December 1 to 10
- Kansas: December 1 to 10
- Kentucky: December 1 to 19
- Louisiana: December 1 to 23
- Maine: December 10 to 14
- Maryland: December 4 to 23
- Massachusetts: December 1 to 14
- Michigan: December 3 to 21
- Minnesota: December 4 to 13
- Mississippi: December 4 to 21
- Missouri: December 1 to 22
- Nevada: December 1 to 10
- New Mexico: December 1 to 20
- New York: December 1 to 9
- North Carolina: December 3 to 21
- Ohio: December 2 to 20
- Oklahoma: December 1 to 10
- Oregon: December 1 to 9
- Pennsylvania: First 10 business days
- South Carolina: December 1 to 10
- South Dakota: December 10
- Tennessee: December 1 to 20
- Texas: December 1 to 28
- Utah: December 5, 11, 15
- Washington: December 1 to 20
- West Virginia: December 1 to 9
- Wisconsin: December 1 to 15
- Guam: December 1 to 10
- Puerto Rico: December 4 to 22
- District of Columbia: December 1 to 10
For those who haven’t received their December SNAP payments yet, it’s important to check your state’s payment schedule. If your state’s payment window has already closed, you will need to wait until January 2025 to receive your next allotment.
