SNAP UPDATE: May 2022 Benefits

Published on Friday, April 22, 2022

Since March of 2020, households receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits have been allotted extra emergency SNAP benefits due to the pandemic. This means households will receive extra benefits that bring them to the maximum amount for their household size or $95, whichever is higher.

Here is a helpful way to know if you are impacted:

• My household receives the maximum SNAP amount for our household size (see table below): You will get $95 a month in extra emergency SNAP payments.
• My household does not get the maximum amount for our household size, but we receive less than $95 a month in extra SNAP each month: You will get $95 a month in extra emergency SNAP payments.

For May 2022, the extra SNAP will come as a supplemental payment on or about May 3rd.