Food stamps: December direct payments worth up to $1,751 to Montana SNAP recipients end in two days
Brady Knox
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Montana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will conclude its December payments, worth up to $1,751, in two days.
Montana distributes its SNAP payments over five days, and December’s payments began on Dec. 2 and will end on Wednesday. The date recipients receive their payment varies depending on their SNAP case number, account number, Social Security number, or last name.
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The household size of recipients determines the amount of their SNAP payments. Single-person households receive $291 per month, and eight-person households receive up to $1,751 per month. In households larger than eight, $219 is added for each additional person.
SNAP benefits can be used at participating locations, including farmers markets and grocery stores. Payments are automatically reloaded every month on an electronic benefits transfer card.
To qualify for SNAP payments in Montana, a single-person household cannot have a net monthly income above $1,215, and an eight-person household cannot have a net monthly income above $4,214.
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Created through the 1964 Food Stamp Act as one of President Lyndon B. Johnson‘s Great Society programs, SNAP aims to improve the nutrition of impoverished people by supplementing their food costs.
SNAP is active across all states and Washington, D.C.