Food stamps: Hawaii January SNAP payments worth up to $3,166 end in two days

Hawaii recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will stop collecting food stamps for January in two days.

SNAP-participating households receive benefits on the 3rd and the 5th of each month, one of the shortest payment periods for the program. A household’s payment date depends on the first letter of the recipient’s last name.

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Last names beginning with A-I should have received benefits on Wednesday, and last names beginning with letters J-Z will collect payments on Friday.

In the Aloha State, a household of one can receive a maximum payment of $527, a household of four can receive as much as $1,759, and a household of eight can receive up to $3,166. The program adds a maximum of $404 to the food stamps payment for each additional household member.

Around 169,000 people, or 12% of the population, receive SNAP benefits in Hawaii. The average payment per household member per month is $175. Maximum SNAP payments in Hawaii increased substantially compared to those from 2020.

Maximum allotments were updated for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., Guam, and the Virgin Islands in 2023 due to cost-of-living adjustments. Hawaii and Alaska are the only two states that have different maximum payments compared to the other 48.

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SNAP benefits are reloaded on an electronic benefit transfer card each month. Food stamps are intended to be used for healthy foods at participating grocery stores, farmers markets, and some online retailers.

The money should be used to purchase groceries, snacks, fresh food, seeds, and plants. Benefits cannot be used to buy alcohol, tobacco products, vitamins, live animals, prepared foods, or any nonfood household items.