The SNAP Food Stamps payment is far more important to thousands of families in the United States than it may appear. Thanks to this monthly check, thousands of families now have more money to spend on fresh food and other necessities.
However, the day we receive our SNAP Food Stamps payments varies depending on where we live. As a result, many beneficiaries must wait until April to receive their new checks. It is critical to remember at all times that each check is completely unique, and each state has its own calendar.
Knowing this allows us to better organize our finances by marking on the calendar the approximate or exact date of when we will collect the payment. Payments are still being received in March, but some states will have to wait until April 2025 to send checks to beneficiaries.
SNAP Food Stamps payments before April
Some states have not yet paid the SNAP Food Stamps check for March, while others have. Those who have already distributed the benefit money to recipients’ EBT cards will not send new checks until next month.
The best thing to do to be clear about this is to look at the full schedule of SNAP Food Stamps payments in 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 10
- 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 10-14
- 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 10
- 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 your state has already sent the check to the EBT card, you will need to wait until April to receive the payment again. If your state has not yet closed the calendar, the payment may still arrive, so plan to visit any of the participating establishments and use this money.
