Proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could cause hungry New Yorkers all across the state to lose hundreds of dollars in benefits each month that they rely on to ...

The only way to determine if your household is eligible for SNAP benefits is to apply,” according to the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA).

SNAP Payment Schedule for New York: When Money Will Arrive Published Jan 03, 2025 at 12:13 PM EST Updated Jan 03, 2025 at 4:06 PM EST By Suzanne Blake ...

Monthly SNAP payments average $220 per person in New York, delivered to beneficiaries through debit cards they can use at participating stores to buy groceries. NY taxpayers could pay more toward ...

SNAP makes monthly payments to poor, elderly and disabled people, with income cutoffs now set at around $23,000 for an individual and $47,000 for a family of four.

A version of this article appears in print on July 12, 2025, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Food Stamp Benefits Could Disappear for 300,000 New Yorkers After Trump ...

With roughly 17,000 SNAP-authorized retailers and more than 180 farmers markets across New York, this proposal would inject an estimated $70 million into the state’s economy.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly food stamps, is known to have had one of the strongest anti-poverty effects of any US benefits program. It kept over 6.6 million ...