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SNAP in WI: FoodShare

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

What it's called
FoodShare
Who runs it
Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). Administered by county/local offices, so office practice can vary; state policy is the baseline.
Where to apply
ACCESS.wi.gov
How this page stays honest
Cross-check: every dollar figure traced to the handbook's own numbered deductions/limits section, not a paraphrase. One significant live finding, disclosed rather than silently corrected: the CURRENT FoodShare handbook (Release 26-01, section 3.17.1, effective 10-01-25) still states the ABAWD age range as 18-54 citing the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act, with no mention of the federal OBBBA 18-64 expansion (enacted 7/4/2025) that every other state pack in this roster already reflects — even though Wisconsin's own Legislative Fiscal Bureau documented a DHS rulemaking deadline of June 1, 2026 for implementing it, a deadline already past as of this pack's build date. This pack does NOT restate the stale 18-54 figure as Mae's answer — it defers to the federal 18-64 band (which controls regardless of what a lagging state handbook page says) and flags the discrepancy. See PROVENANCE.md.

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