Benefit Food stamp households with someone 60 or older or disabled only have to pass SNAP’s net income test, set at $1,330 a month for one person in the 48 states and D.C. By David Keller, 15 hrs ago The The Financial Wire Follow https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=44NJ6U_1GgG0lKy00 A SNAP household with someone 60 or older or disabled only has to pass the program’s net income test, which for one person is $1,330 a month in the 48 states and Washington, D.C., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The figure applies to applications made from Oct. 1, 2026 through Sept. 30, 2027. Households with no older or disabled member must also pass a separate gross income test. What does the net income test leave out for older and disabled households? USDA’s SNAP eligibility page, updated Oct. 1, 2026, says “a household with an elderly or disabled person only has to meet the net income limit.” Gross income is a household’s total, non-excluded income before any deductions, and that is the figure other households have to keep under a higher cap. For a household of one without an older or disabled member, USDA’s fiscal 2027 cost-of-living memo sets that gross cap at $1,729 a month. The memo, dated Aug. 21, 2026 and effective Oct. 1, was issued by the Food and Nutrition Administration and signed by Sasha Gersten-Paal for Acting Associate Administrator Ronald Ward. USDA’s special rules page says that “in SNAP, you are elderly if you are 60 years or older.” A person qualifies as disabled by meeting one of six listed criteria, including receiving federal or state disability or blindness payments, certain veterans’ benefits, or a disability retirement benefit from a government agency. A single household member who meets either test is enough. The page says households with an elderly or disabled person do not have to meet the gross income limit.