Food Stamp Program Annual Average Benefits

FOOD STAMP PROGRAM: AVERAGE MONTHLY BENEFIT PER PERSON
(Data as of April 24, 2008)
State/Territory	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006	FY 2007

Alabama	82.28	85.85	91.91	90.50	91.80
Alaska	108.06	108.81	120.58	125.37	127.69
Arizona	88.96	90.94	95.98	96.51	98.95
Arkansas	81.72	83.44	89.47	89.72	90.50
California	88.07	88.79	96.83	99.05	104.56
Colorado	81.43	87.18	106.14	106.42	103.24
Connecticut	76.11	83.99	91.11	94.74	99.21
Delaware	86.53	84.68	88.26	89.01	92.69
District of Columbia	91.83	91.66	96.94	97.34	100.12
Florida	79.05	87.93	96.37	99.00	94.65
Georgia	86.91	88.78	94.77	96.67	98.76
Guam	186.06	155.87	163.85	163.94	174.38
Hawaii	129.66	128.32	138.88	140.10	145.55
Idaho	78.28	82.95	91.83	91.62	91.88
Illinois	91.97	94.38	100.73	102.25	104.65
Indiana	85.73	87.00	93.87	93.98	96.10
Iowa	80.86	82.01	88.60	90.17	92.81
Kansas	72.80	77.68	84.37	85.72	88.10
Kentucky	80.61	83.03	89.36	91.29	93.33
Louisiana	87.14	89.03	100.96	103.59	95.60
Maine	77.98	81.98	88.40	88.01	87.42
Maryland	84.83	87.24	92.33	91.71	93.67
Massachusetts	72.37	75.74	82.18	81.41	86.20
Michigan	77.91	79.13	87.41	91.05	94.63
Minnesota	80.67	83.10	88.16	89.15	89.36
Mississippi	78.48	79.81	88.70	94.39	86.79
Missouri	79.96	79.02	80.00	77.44	75.38
Montana	80.56	85.18	91.95	91.90	93.47
Nebraska	74.99	79.52	84.83	86.56	87.36
Nevada	84.32	82.81	88.26	87.86	91.18
New Hampshire	74.22	74.90	80.56	85.61	88.10
New Jersey	83.28	85.33	92.89	93.64	97.19
New Mexico	78.50	81.35	87.07	86.29	88.65
New York	97.29	97.83	101.43	104.52	107.49
North Carolina	82.82	83.99	89.21	89.83	91.77
North Dakota	77.11	81.05	88.21	90.47	95.83
Ohio	85.61	88.96	95.59	99.18	100.04
Oklahoma	79.42	80.49	86.32	89.42	90.77
Oregon	79.70	82.45	88.49	88.91	90.73
Pennsylvania	79.56	80.93	88.28	90.20	92.40
Rhode Island	77.41	79.06	86.00	92.14	97.57
South Carolina	82.00	84.00	90.48	91.93	94.47
South Dakota	82.26	84.07	91.33	94.29	97.67
Tennessee	82.59	83.88	92.35	93.44	96.70
Texas	83.71	85.10	90.75	93.40	93.52
Utah	80.63	83.14	88.31	88.81	89.90