All those who benefit from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a form of assistance to pay for food, in Florida will receive their July payments Friday.

Food stamps in the Sunshine State are distributed from the 1st through the 28th of each month, meaning that all July benefits should be given to beneficiaries by July 28.

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With SNAP in the Sunshine State, the average benefit payment per household member is $180, with approximately 2.85 million people, or roughly 13% of the state’s population, receiving assistance paying for groceries.

Food stamps in Florida are given out using a formula that takes the ninth digit followed by the eighth digit of a person’s case number to create a two-digit number, which corresponds to a day when someone receives their benefits. If a recipient’s ninth digit is 9 and their eighth digit is 8, then the number for this formula would be 98.

Those who have case numbers in which this combination is 00-03, those people will receive their benefits on the 1st of a month. Those who receive their benefits from the 2nd through the 27th of the month are in groups of three, beginning with 04-06 for the 2nd of the month and ending with 93-95 for the 27th. Those whose ninth and eighth digits are 96-99 receive their benefits on the 28th.

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SNAP benefits can be used to buy “breads, cereals, fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, poultry, dairy, and plants and seeds to grow food for your household to eat,” but they cannot be used for “pet foods, soaps, paper products, household supplies, grooming items, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, vitamins, medicines, food to eat in the store, or hot foods,” per the state.

Further information on how to use an EBT card and eligibility requirements to receive food stamps in the state can be found on the state website. The next round of monthly payments for the food stamps program in Florida begins in four days, on Aug. 1.

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