On November 8, 2025, the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) received new guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) about November SNAP benefits. The guidance instructs states to reduce maximum SNAP payments by 35 percent and process partial payments. This change follows updates to the Thrifty Food Plan.
DHR is updating its SNAP system to apply these changes and calculate new benefit amounts for each household. The department plans to release the updated benefits by the end of this week, unless there are more changes from FNS or technical problems…