Demeter / SNAP in CO
SNAP in CO: SNAP
✓ Verified from primary sources · 2026-08-11 · every state we cover
- What it's called
- SNAP
- Who runs it
- Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). Administered by county/local offices, so office practice can vary; state policy is the baseline.
- Where to apply
- Colorado PEAK
- How this page stays honest
- Colorado's own primary sources revealed the most extensive, most CLEARLY EXPLAINED staleness pattern this roster has documented: Colorado folds its entire operational SNAP policy directly into 10 CCR 2506-1, a FORMALLY PROMULGATED administrative regulation subject to Colorado's quarterly rulemaking cycle — unlike every other state in this roster, which maintains a separate, faster-to-revise narrative "manual" alongside its statute. This pack found NO separate Colorado manual; the CCR IS the manual. The likely consequence: as of this pack's fetch date, EVERY dollar figure in 10 CCR 2506-1 (maximum/minimum monthly allotments, the Standard Deduction, the Excess Shelter Deduction cap, the Homeless Shelter Deduction, and all four Standard Utility Allowances) is still labeled "Effective October 1, 2024" — the FFY2025 COLA cycle, one full federal fiscal year behind the current FFY2026 cycle (effective October 1, 2025) that this roster's other packs (MD, MO) independently confirmed via their own states' faster-moving transmittals. Only the 200% FPL income-limit table and the $3,000/$4,500 resource limits happen to be numerically identical between FFY2025 and FFY2026 nationally, so those two figures are confirmed CURRENT despite the CCR's own stale label. Separately and more strikingly, 10 CCR 2506-1-4.311 (ABAWD Work Requirements), despite its own header reading "[Effective 1/4/2025]," still defines an ABAWD as aged 18 through 54 and lists now-federally-REMOVED exemptions (homelessness, veteran status, aged-out-of-foster-care-by-24) — a genuine, disclosed internal contradiction against CDHS's own current, dated, OBBBA-updated ABAWD FAQ page and February 2026 training desk aid, both of which state the current federal 18-64 range. CDHS's own main /snap page compounds this: it states the ABAWD age range as "18 and 56" in one paragraph and "18 to 64" in another, on the SAME page, alongside a leftover stale 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act notice — a genuine, disclosed, THREE-WAY internal contradiction on a single Colorado government page. This pack treats CDHS's dedicated ABAWD FAQ page and February 2026 desk aid as authoritative for the ABAWD age range (18-64) because they are the most specific, most recently dated, and most directly OBBBA-responsive sources found. Separately, Colorado's own drug-felony rule is narrower than this pack expected from secondary "modified ban" characterizations — see PROVENANCE.md Finding 2 — and Colorado's Restaurant Meals Program and Healthy Choice Waiver are both live, actively-changing situations disclosed in freshness.json rather than stated as settled fact.
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