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SNAP in TN: SNAP

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

What it's called
SNAP
Who runs it
Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS). Administered directly by the state.
Where to apply
One DHS Customer Portal
How this page stays honest
The federally uniform dollar figures this pack cites (Standard Deduction, Maximum Excess Shelter Deduction, Homeless Shelter Allowance, resource limits) are NOT independently re-stated in TDHS's own current policy series — Policy 24.12 (Resources) and Policy 24.18 (Deductions) both explicitly defer exact dollar amounts to an internal 'Family Assistance Standards Desk Guide' this pack could not locate published anywhere on tn.gov, so this pack applies the same current FFY2026 federal table figures every other state in this roster has already verified, on the strength of TDHS's own 'uniform national resource standards' / 'appropriate standard deduction' language rather than a Tennessee-specific dollar restatement. Tennessee's Standard Utility Allowance is DIFFERENT: it is state-specific (not federally uniform), and the only publicly available TN-specific SUA dollar table this pack could find — the codified rule 1240-01-04-.27, Tables IV-A/IV-B/V-A/V-B/VI/VII — carries internal signs of being at least a decade stale (its own Standard Deduction figures of $142/$153/$179/$205 and Maximum Coupon Allotment of $200 for a 1-person household do not match ANY recent FFY table), and USDA's national FY2026 SUA rollup page did not render fetchable per-state data in this pass either (the same disclosed limitation VA's pack recorded). This pack therefore states Tennessee's SUA STRUCTURE (three tiers: a size-scaled Standard Utility Allowance, a flat Basic Utility Allowance, and a flat Standard Telephone Allowance) as a confirmed finding, but explicitly declines to assert a current TN-specific SUA dollar figure — a genuine, disclosed gap, not a fabricated number. Adversarial refute pass recorded in PROVENANCE.md.

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