$EBT
People on food stamps in New York State
2,638,2711.1% downon the month before
people in Aug 2026Up 95% from 1,356,008 in Aug 2002 · Lowest since Mar 2020
Quiet. 2,638,271 people in Aug 2026, down 1.1% on the month before.
From Aug 2024 to Aug 2026.
How it is counted
Normal2,792,583 to 2,968,283
Highest2,981,917Oct 2024
Unusual months3
- Counts
- People in New York State who got SNAP food benefits (food stamps, paid on an EBT card) in a month, added across the state's social services districts, as the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance reports them. A month prints only when every district is in. Counted from January 2002, the first month of the state's file.
- Why it is here
- About one New Yorker in seven buys food with an EBT card.
- Cadence
- Monthly, about ten weeks after the month ends. Newest complete month Aug 2026. Read Nov 13, 05:40 UTC.
- Baseline
- The prior 24 months, 12 needed.
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2,638,271 New Yorkers got SNAP food benefits in Aug 2026, according to New York State figures kept by Tickerz.
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- How many people get food stamps in New York State?
- 2,638,271 people in New York State got SNAP food benefits in Aug 2026, as the state's Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance reports it.
- Where does the $EBT number come from?
- Tickerz reads it from New York State Open Data, SNAP Caseloads and Expenditures beginning 2002 (Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance). Monthly, about ten weeks after the month ends. Each number is kept as it was first published, with a timestamped proof, and any later revision is shown beside it.
- Can I download the $EBT data?
- Yes, free and with no key: the full history as JSON at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/ebt and every period as CSV at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/ebt/history.csv.
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No listing kit for $EBT yet. A kit sets its strikes from 14 published numbers. This index publishes one a month and has none yet.
Resolution
- Index
- $EBT People on food stamps in New York State. Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04.
- Prints
- Monthly, about ten weeks after the month ends. The newest complete month is on the record after the daily proof at 12:40 UTC.
- As first published
Aug 2026 is not timestamped yet. The daily proof at 12:40 UTC adds it.
The number as first published is final for settlement. A revision by the source is shown beside it and never replaces it.
- Fallback
- A month prints when every district is in. Until then it stays open. A month the state never publishes is void.
- Precision
- Whole people: total SNAP persons, summed over every district.
- Cost to move
- Not practical. Moving a month means moving a state's caseload.
- Grade
- reference. The state agency's own count of the people it pays, published every month. It can correct a recent month; the record keeps each revision.
- For a rulebook
- Settle on the number Tickerz first recorded for $EBT for the month named in the contract, published at tickerz.com/x/ebt and in GET /api/indices/ebt, timestamped daily in Bitcoin with OpenTimestamps.
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- Every reading is timestamped in Bitcoin once a day, so nobody can change it later. The newest proof covers Nov 12, in Bitcoin block 975,557.Proof fileLive feedHow it works
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