SNAP gross income and asset limits by US state (BBCE)

For each US state: whether it uses Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility (BBCE) for SNAP, the gross income limit it applies (as a percent of the federal poverty level), the asset limit it applies, and — where the state agency publishes one — the actual monthly dollar limit per household size with its effective dates. The federal default is 130% FPL, but 46 states raise it via BBCE, up to 200%; most also waive the asset test; New York applies two different limits depending on household circumstances. Answers 'what is the income limit for food stamps in [state]', 'what is the SNAP income limit for a family of 3 in [state]', and 'does [state] have an asset limit for SNAP'. Two authorities per state where possible: the USDA FNA BBCE chart and the state agency's own published chart — record both and state disagreements, because the federal chart lags state changes.

1 record where two or more sources state different values. Both sides are reproduced on the record page, each with its own source and quote.

The data

Where this came from

Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 11 sources this dataset was assembled from.

• fns.usda.govhttps://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/broad-based-categorical-eligibility
• cdhs.colorado.govhttps://cdhs.colorado.gov/snap
• humanservices.hawaii.govhttps://humanservices.hawaii.gov/bessd/snap/
• dhs.state.il.ushttps://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=30357
• maine.govhttps://www.maine.gov/dhhs/ofi/programs-services/food-supplement
• dhhs.michigan.govhttps://dhhs.michigan.gov/OLMWeb/ex/RF/Public/RFT/250.pdf
• mdhs.ms.govhttps://www.mdhs.ms.gov/economic-assistance/snap/
• hhs.nd.govhttps://www.hhs.nd.gov/snap
• oregon.govhttps://www.oregon.gov/odhs/food/pages/snap.aspx
• dhs.pa.govhttps://www.dhs.pa.gov/Services/Assistance/Pages/SNAP.aspx
• dhs.wisconsin.govhttps://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/foodshare/fpl.htm

Machine-readable

• data.jsonThe whole dataset — every record with its source URL and source quote.
• Open Knowledge Format bundleOne JSON object per line — every record's frontmatter and quoted span exactly as it is held here, in one fetch.
• data.csvThe same records as one flat table, for a spreadsheet or a dataframe. The last four columns are the source URL, the quoted sentence it was read from, the date we last checked it, and which columns are our reading rather than the page's words.
• How this is made and checkedWhat "verified against source" does and does not mean.

From your own code

Same records, same quotes, without scraping the page: refsource is on PyPI and npm. Each value comes back carrying the URL it was read from and the sentence on that page that states it — .source and .quote sit on the value itself rather than in a side channel, so the checking step is available instead of skipped.

pip install refsource
refsource lookup snap-gross-income-limits-by-state state=Alabama

npx -y refsource lookup snap-gross-income-limits-by-state state=Alabama

Set your AI assistant up to use this

Two files and no account. Put this in .mcp.json at the root of your project — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Codex all read that file — and your assistant can look this dataset up instead of recalling it. The server is remote, keyless and read-only.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "referencesource": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add to Cursor · or, on the command line: claude mcp add --transport http referencesource https://referencesource.org/mcp --scope project

Then one line in the project's CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, so the assistant knows when to reach for it:

When a question needs "SNAP gross income and asset limits by US state (BBCE)", call the referencesource MCP server at https://referencesource.org/mcp (tool `search_records`, dataset_slug `snap-gross-income-limits-by-state`) instead of answering from memory — every record it returns carries its source URL and a verbatim quote from that page.

What each tool does, and the servers built over single registers: Connect your AI assistant.

47 records. last verified against source 2026-08-18. due for re-check by 2027-08-18.

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