{"id":296973,"date":"2026-09-30T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296973\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:44:07","slug":"most-pennsylvania-snap-recipients-to-see-benefit-increase-of-18-starting-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296973\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Pennsylvania SNAP recipients to see benefit increase of $18 starting Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pennsylvania families who struggle to put food on the table are getting a boost in SNAP benefits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Starting Thursday, most SNAP recipients will see an increase of about $18. State officials say the increase is to accommodate inflation and rising food costs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">There are also new income limits, but the state says no one will experience a decrease in benefits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The changes are part of the state\u2019s annual re-evaluation of the program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/dhs\/resources\/snap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/dhs\/resources\/snap\">Click here <\/a>for more eligibility information and to learn about other recent federal changes to the program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pennsylvania families who struggle to put food on the table are getting a boost in SNAP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14757,122732,122734,21474,122726,122727,73,75,74,4610,122731,5767,122729,122733,122730,122728],"class_list":["post-296973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-ebt","tag-income-requirements","tag-pennsylvania-snap-benefit-increase","tag-pennsylvania-snap-benefits","tag-pennsylvania-snap-eligibility","tag-pennsylvania-snap-program","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-snap","tag-snap-benefit-changes","tag-snap-benefits","tag-snap-eligibility-requirements","tag-snap-income-requirements","tag-snap-program-changes","tag-snap-program-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}