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SNAP in AL: SNAP

✓ Verified from primary sources · 2026-08-12 · every state we cover

What it's called
SNAP
Who runs it
Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR). Administered directly by the state.
Where to apply
MyDHR
How this page stays honest
Justia and FindLaw both 403'd on direct curl for the underlying Ala. Code § 38-1-8 text — resolved via convergent secondary corroboration disclosed above and cross-checked against DHR's own primary-source POE Manual text, which independently states the same substantive rule. Separately, and more significantly: this pack found TWO different DHR-hosted PDFs of the same POE manual chapters, live on two different DHR-controlled hosts, with MATERIALLY DIFFERENT content — dhr.alabama.gov's bundled 2022-vintage "Appendix I" PDF (part of an FY22 D-SNAP plan bundle) still carries FFY2022 dollar figures ($2,250/$3,500 resource limits, a $1,396/$1,074 household-of-one income table) and the PRE-OBBBA ABAWD age range (18-49, under-18 caregiver exception, no Indian/Urban Indian/California Indian exemption) — while apps.dhr.alabama.gov's per-chapter POE manual and DHR's own Form 1942 (Rev. 10/25) both carry CURRENT FFY2026 figures ($3,000/$4,500 resource limits, $1,696/$1,305 household-of-one income table) and the full 2025 OBBBA-updated ABAWD text (18-64, under-14 caregiver exception, Indian/Urban Indian/California Indian exemption). Both PDFs are still live, both surface readily in a search, and nothing on dhr.alabama.gov's own page visibly flags the Appendix I bundle as superseded. This pack treats apps.dhr.alabama.gov's per-chapter manual and Form 1942 (Rev. 10/25) as authoritative wherever the two diverge, and discloses the stale duplicate explicitly rather than silently preferring one. Separately, this pack could NOT locate Alabama's Standard Utility Allowance (SUA/BUA/telephone standard) dollar figures or its Excess Shelter Deduction dollar cap in any Alabama-DHR-hosted primary source — DHR's own manual repeatedly defers these to an internal "Basis of Issuance Chart" not published at any URL this pack could locate; see freshness.json for this disclosed gap.

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