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Benefits by State: SNAP, Medicaid, CHIP, TANF and Child Care Income Limits for All 50 States and DC

How much a family can earn and still get SNAP, Medicaid, CHIP, TANF or child care help in each state and DC, side by side, with a page for every state.

Benefits in your state: a line of a family's money left each month as its pay rises, dropping where a benefit ends
Each state sets its own limits: the 50 states and DC side by side.
Who lives with you
For housing help, which is set county by county.

Everyone who lives with you and shares meals.

A partner you are not married to goes in as another adult: they file their own tax return. If they are a parent of a child here, tick "Parent of a child here".

Children are worked out on their own: Medicaid and CHIP cover children at higher incomes than parents in most states (42 CFR 435.118), and an adult can apply for a child without applying for themselves (42 CFR 435.907).

Optional. For FDPIR, the USDA Foods program some Tribes run beside SNAP.

Money coming in

Before tax. Leave a box blank when there is none.

Bank accounts and cash, not your home or one car.

Have savings? SSI's limit is $2,000, or $3,000 for a couple (20 CFR 416.1205), but WIC has no savings test (7 CFR 246.7(c)).

Have a car? SSI leaves out one car used to get around (20 CFR 416.1218), and Medicaid that goes by income alone has no savings test (42 U.S.C. 1396a(e)(14)(C)).

Costs each month
The whole rent, even if a voucher pays part. In public housing, what you pay.
So you can work or study.
Counts only for people 60 or older or with a disability.

Own your home? The home you live in does not count for SNAP (7 CFR 273.8(e)(1)) or SSI (20 CFR 416.1212), and Medicaid for children, pregnant women, parents and adults under 65 that goes by income alone has no savings test (42 U.S.C. 1396a(e)(14)(C)).

What you have now

Programs you already get can have different rules for staying on them.

The second-lowest-cost silver plan for everyone here who needs coverage. HealthCare.gov's tax tool shows it for your ZIP code. With it, the marketplace tax credit shows in dollars.

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Your month

Start with your state

Then add who lives with you and the money coming in. Everything is worked out here in your browser; nothing you type is sent or saved.

States set many of the rules that decide what a family gets: whether adults can get Medicaid, how much a family can earn and keep children on Medicaid or CHIP, how far above the federal limit SNAP reaches, what TANF cash help pays and who gets child care help. The table below puts every state side by side for a family of three, and each state’s page has its own limits for households of 1 to 8, its own names for each program, where to apply, and where the cliffs are for a working family.

How do the states compare for a family of three?

Each row is one state. The SNAP limit is the most a family of three can earn before taxes and still apply; many states use a higher limit than the federal one under an option called broad-based categorical eligibility, and the amount still depends on income after deductions. “Children covered up to” is the most a family of three can earn while the children keep Medicaid or CHIP. “Most TANF” is the largest monthly cash payment for a family of three with no other income. The child care limit is the most a family of three can earn when it applies for help. A dash means the figure for that state is not in our files yet.

For a family of 3, a month: SNAP's gross income limit (for a working parent and children, no one 60 or older or with a disability), whether the state has expanded Medicaid, how much a family can earn and keep children on Medicaid or CHIP, the most TANF pays, and the income limit to start child care help
StateSNAP gross limitMedicaid expandedChildren covered up toMost TANFChild care limit
Arizona$4,554Yes$5,236––
Arkansas$2,960Yes$4,918–$5,372
Colorado$4,554Yes$6,033––
Connecticut$4,554Yes$7,354$833$6,558
District of Columbia$4,554Yes$7,376$803$6,455
Florida$4,554No$4,895$303–
Illinois$3,757Yes$7,240––
Massachusetts$4,554Yes$6,944––
Michigan$4,554Yes$4,940––
Minnesota$4,554Yes$6,375––
Montana$4,554Yes$6,056$725$4,109
North Carolina$4,554Yes$4,918–$4,442
North Dakota$4,554Yes$4,667–$6,959
Ohio$4,554Yes$4,804––
Oklahoma$2,960Yes$4,781–$5,743
Pennsylvania$4,554Yes$7,263–$4,553
Rhode Island$4,212Yes$6,056––
South Dakota$2,960Yes$4,758–$4,758
Vermont$4,212Yes$7,217–$13,091
Washington$4,554Yes$7,217$706$6,166
West Virginia$4,554Yes$6,944––
Wisconsin$4,554No$6,967––
Wyoming$2,960No$4,667–$3,984

Each state's page names the official source of each figure and the period it is for.

Download every state's limits (CSV, opens in Excel) Every state and DC, households of 1 to 8 people: each program's monthly income limit and the most TANF pays, as the state pages show them, with the period each figure is for.

Which state pages are there?

Each page has the state’s full limits by household size, a worked example family with its cliffs, and the state’s own program pages to apply.

Why do the limits differ so much from state to state?

Federal law sets a floor and a frame, and states choose within it. Medicaid for adults depends on whether the state expanded the program to 138% of the poverty line. Children’s limits are set apart from adults’, and each state chooses its own. TANF cash help is paid from a federal block grant, and each state decides its own amounts and income tests. Child care help is limited by funding, so states set their own income limits and fees, and some keep waiting lists. SNAP’s amounts are the same across the 48 states and DC, but states choose how high the gross income limit goes and whether to test savings.

That is why the same family can be eligible for help in one state and not in the next, and why a cliff can sit at a different pay in each state. The calculator above works your own household out with your state’s rules.

Figures checked October 31, 2026.

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