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SNAP benefits (formerly food stamps)

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can help you expand your healthy food budget and explore opportunities to support your wellbeing and education and employment goals.

SNAP is administered by the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA).

SNAP benefits include:

• Monthly funds on an EBT card to buy food
• $40 a month put back on your EBT card when you use SNAP to buy local produce via the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP)
• SNAP Path to Work free education and training opportunities
• Free nutrition education classes and resources
• Connections to other kinds of help, like utility discounts, free school meals, and discounted admissions to many Commonwealth museums and cultural institutions via EBT Card to Culture


Video: Learn About SNAP

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Special Accommodations

Do you have a disability and need additional help? This could be mental, physical, sensory, learning, intellectual, cognitive or developmental. The Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) may be able to give you extra help or adjust a rule. Click here for more.

What would you like to do?

Top tasks

See if you are eligible in 10 seconds via our SNAP screener  Apply for SNAP  Connect with DTA to submit documents & get case info (online, by phone, in-person) 

All other tasks

Shop for food online with SNAP  Find help in the community via a SNAP outreach partner  SNAP Path to Work (education & training)  SNAP Outreach Materials  Report SNAP Household Misfortune  EBT Card to Culture (discounted admissions to museums & cultural institutions) 

What you need to know

Learn about SNAP  Healthy Incentives Program (HIP)  Nutrition Education  Use your EBT card  SNAP verifications: information you may need to provide  When to tell DTA about changes (reporting requirements)  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 

Contact Information

Phone

DTA Assistance Line Call Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA), DTA Assistance Line at (877) 382-2363

The DTA Assistance Line is open from 8:15 A.M. to 4:45 P.M.

Online

DTA office phone directory 
Download the DTA Connect Mobile App 
DTA Connect website 

Fax

DTA Document Processing Center (617) 887-8765

Locations

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