The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration says it has received updated guidance from the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service requiring a recalculation of benefits for all 274,000 SNAP households in Indiana.
As a result, November SNAP benefits will be delayed by at least one week.
Under the new guidance, each household’s benefit must be recalculated using a revised formula.
FNS has reduced the federally determined maximum allotment for a household by 50%.
SNAP assumes households spend 30% of their net income on food.
Therefore, SNAP benefits are calculated by subtracting 30% of the household’s net income from the federally determined maximum allotment.
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