Indiana will start taking back old food stamp dollars next month. Beginning November 23, 2026, the state says, every SNAP benefit that is at least 274 days old, about nine months, will be removed from the household’s EBT account. Once the money is gone, Indiana says plainly that it will not be put back.
The notice sits at the top of the SNAP page of the Family and Social Services Administration’s Division of Family Resources, which was last updated on October 1, 2026. The state’s wording is short: “Benefits that have been removed (expunged), cannot be replaced.” The page gives no count of affected households and no dollar total.
What 274 days means for a balance
The clock runs on each deposit, not on the card. A month’s benefit that was loaded about nine months before the cutoff is old enough to go, while a deposit from last month is not. A household can therefore lose part of a balance and keep the rest…