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When Can I Expect to Get My November 2022 Food Stamps Payment?

By John Powers 12
Expect to Get My November 2022 Food Stamps Payment

Beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will get another large payment in November. This is the second month in a row that includes a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of 12.5%, which was approved for the fiscal year 2023. COLA started on October 1, 2022, and will last until September 30, 2023.

The date you will get your November payment hasn’t changed. As always, it depends on where you live. SNAP is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but the program is run by the states. Each state and U.S. territory has its own schedule for when payments are made each month.

SNAP, which was formerly called “food stamps,” helps low-income households buy food. If you qualify for SNAP benefits, the money will be put into your SNAP account every month. Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards are now used instead of food stamps to make payments, though some states may call the cards something else.

Cards can be swiped at checkout, like debit cards, in grocery stores, big box stores, and other places. To finish the transaction, you will need to type in your PIN. Depending on where you live, you may also be able to buy eligible foods online from retailers who are taking part. Visit the USDA page to find out which stores take EBT payments online.

Visit the USDA site for monthly payment schedules for all states and territories to find out when you’ll get your November 2022 payment. In most states, SNAP case numbers, last names, or Social Security numbers determine when payments are made. Most of the time, the payment schedule is the same every month.

In very rare cases, like in Alaska, all SNAP recipients get their money on the same day. This means that everyone gets their money on the first of every month. In states with more people, like Florida, benefits may be paid on as many as 20 different days. There are also different rules for payment days that fall on weekends or holidays from one state to the next.

You Can Use Your Snap Benefits to Buy the Following Food Items:

  • Fruits and vegetables
  • Meat, fish, and birds
  • Milk and cheese
  • Grains and bread
  • Snack foods and drinks that don’t contain alcohol
  • Seeds and plants that will grow food for the family.

You can’t buy alcohol, cigarettes, vitamins, medicines, supplements, live animals, pet food, cleaning supplies, paper products, or cosmetics with your SNAP benefits. You also can’t buy hot meals in most states. The only states that don’t have to do this are the ones that have joined the SNAP Restaurant Meals Program.

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You can sign up for SNAP at a local office in your state or on its website. You can also go to SNAP’s Application and Local Office Locators page to find out how to apply in your state. Use the SNAP Retailer Locator tool to find SNAP-approved offices in your area.

The Importance of CalFresh

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps low-income people buy food, is the largest social safety net program in the United States. Other safety net programs are made to help specific groups, but SNAP is open to all citizens and permanent residents who qualify based on their income, regardless of age, family size, or participation in other safety net programs.
(1) One in eight Californians, or about 4.8 million people, take part in CalFresh each month. The state estimates that about 6.5 million people are eligible (California Department of Social Services 2022b).
(2) By the time they turn six, about half of California’s young children are taking part in CalFresh (Danielson, Thorman, and Bohn 2020).
In California, SNAP is called CalFresh. Families can get it if their income is less than the federal poverty line, which will be $27,750 for a family of four in 2022. As of January 2022, the average benefit each participant received each month was $262.
(Food and Nutrition Service 2022). (3) CalFresh is very important when the economy is bad. During the COVID-19 crisis, for example, low-income families were able to get by thanks to increased benefits and a temporary delay in having to fill out paperwork.
Data from the California Poverty Measure show that CalFresh is about as effective at reducing poverty as the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (Bohn, Danielson, and Malagon, 2021). However, we don’t know much about how, in combination with other safety net programs, it keeps employment and income from fluctuating too much.
Even though CalFresh can only be used for groceries, it gives low-income families more money to spend on things like rent and utilities (Hoynes, McGranahan, and Schanzenbach 2015). (4) National research using survey data has shown that SNAP makes resources less unstable (Hardy 2017; Gunderson and Ziliak 2003). However, research using in-depth interviews with a much smaller sample has shown that safety net resources can make resource instability worse (Morduch and Siwicki 2017).

A recent report, by Thorman and Danielson (2022), looked at how adults who get CalFresh change jobs. Here, we look at how income changes. There is a high chance that CalFresh participants of working age will have short-term jobs or lose their jobs.
This means that many participants face some earnings instability (Thorman and Danielson 2022). CalFresh can help make up for these sudden drops in income, but delays, changes, and stops in CalFresh benefits can also throw off family incomes.
Unstable income is linked to a number of bad health and educational outcomes, as well as financial problems (Prause et al. 2009; Hardy 2014; Gennetian et al. 2015; Schneider and Harknett 2017). Resources change more for low-income families than for higher-income families, and this change has been getting worse for low-income families in recent years (Western et al. 2016; Morduch and Schneider 2017; Wolf et al. 2014; Hardy and Ziliak 2014; Dynan et al. 2012).

Also, the fact that too many Black and Latino adults work in industries like agriculture, construction, service, and care that depend on variable and temporary jobs makes them more likely to be unstable.

CalFresh can help participating families meet their basic needs by giving them a lot of extra money. In this report, we count income from CalFresh and cash-based programs like Unemployment Insurance (UI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF, or CalWORKs in California), and Supplemental Security Income/State Supplemental Payment (SSI/SSP) as well as earnings from work.
CalFresh is set up so that it goes up and down with income and goes away as income and other sources go up. (7) In real life, though, this might not always be the case. Families who are eligible for benefits may not get them right away, and they may stop getting them while they are still eligible because of their income.

Also, because income eligibility has to be checked every six months instead of whenever there is a change (to cut down on paperwork), benefits don’t always go up quickly when income goes down. (8) For these and other reasons, income insecurity can continue even after a person stops participating.

We look at a key set of resources that CalFresh participants ages 25–54 and their households may have over three years, before, during, and after CalFresh participation. We focus on this age group because most students can’t get CalFresh unless they work 20 hours a week (California Department of Social Services 2021a).

 Most of these adults don’t have any children on their CalFresh case and are the only adult on the case (Technical Appendix Table D1).

We look at UI-covered earnings, CalFresh, CalWORKS, SSI/SSP, and UI benefits in particular. First, we look at common sources of income and resources (from other income sources) and how important they were in the years before and after a person started getting CalFresh.

Next, we look at how earnings and income change over time to see how often adults and their households go through big changes. Third, we look at who is more likely to go through big changes at important points of change.

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