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SNAP in MO: SNAP

✓ Verified from primary sources · 2026-08-11 · every state we cover

What it's called
SNAP
Who runs it
Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS). Administered directly by the state.
Where to apply
myDSS Benefits Portal
How this page stays honest
Missouri's own SNAP manual proved MOSTLY current but genuinely mixed: the DSS SNAP Program Changes Flyer (10/2025, i.e. FFY2026) independently confirms the income limits, the $209/$209/$209/$223/$261/$299 Standard Deduction, the $744 Excess Shelter Expense Deduction cap, and the $198.99 Homeless Standard Deduction are all CURRENT — matching this roster's Indiana and Virginia packs' own independently-confirmed FFY2026 figures exactly. However, the Standard Utility Allowance figures ($495 SUA / $363 NHCS / $158 LUA / $79 telephone) found in Missouri's own manual (1115.035.25.15) are dated to IM-50 (September 23, 2024, i.e. FFY2025) and this pack could NOT locate a confirmed FFY2026 update to those specific four figures despite a targeted search — a genuine, disclosed partial staleness gap (see freshness.json). Separately, Missouri's own public ABAWD manual section (1105.035.00) still states the pre-OBBBA age range ("As of 10/01/2024, 18-54 years old are the ABAWD age limits"), even though Missouri's own HR1-implementation page confirms the state's FAMIS/MEDES systems have already been updated for the current federal 18-64 range — a genuine, disclosed gap between Missouri's internal system logic (current) and its public-facing policy manual text (stale). The resource-limit figures ($3,000 standard / $4,500 elderly-or-disabled) could NOT be confirmed from Missouri's own primary manual text directly: the specific subsection (1110.005.00) returned a password wall this pack's tooling could not pass, even though the sibling Vehicles subsection in the very same chapter rendered cleanly — resolved through convergent secondary corroboration (the Missouri Budget Project's own 2025 SNAP overview, an in-state fiscal-policy research nonprofit, plus consistency with the current federal FFY2026 standard this roster's Indiana and Virginia packs already independently confirmed), disclosed plainly as a partial access barrier rather than smoothed over.

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