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Applying for Supplemental Nutrition Aid Program (SNAP) benefits, which were previously known equally food stamps, is an important footstep in making sure you lot and your family remain healthy. Each state has its own application process, just all programs require yous to provide documents every bit proof that you're eligible for the program. If you're not certain how to upload documents for SNAP benefits or what documents you demand, don't worry. We'll walk y'all through the required documents and how to upload them for your SNAP application.

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    Become all of your supporting documents together. In many states, the more than documents you can provide the SNAP administrators, the faster they'll exist able to corroborate yous for benefits.[1] Here are some of the documents yous may need, many of which could be used for more one category:[2]

    • An I.D.: this could include a commuter's license, passport, naturalization certificate, or nativity document.
    • Proof of residency: you tin can utilize a copy of your current lease, a rent release, a written statement from your landlord, mortgage records, or schoolhouse records.
    • Documentation showing the size of your household: this tin can be a written statement from your landlord, a community organization, or a person who is not a member of your household.
    • Proof of age for all members of your household: these tin be either nativity certificates or baptismal records.
    • Social security numbers for all members of your household: y'all'll have to provide either copies of your social security cards, or official correspondence from the Social Security Administration.
    • Proof of citizenship: if administrators have a reason to incertitude your citizenship, they may desire to meet your nascency certificate or naturalization records.
    • Proof of earned income: for any members of your household who are working, you'll need to testify testify of how much coin you lot've fabricated in the by twelvemonth. These can include your nearly recent income tax returns, a alphabetic character from your employer list your earnings and how many hours you've worked, or your electric current pay stubs.
    • Documents for any sources of unearned income: these might include statements from family unit court, official correspondence from the Social Security Administration or Department of Veterans Affairs, or a statement from your bank or credit union.
    • Proof of resource: these can include bank records or statements from other financial institutions.

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    Take photos of your documents. If y'all have a smartphone or other kind of phone that has access to the cyberspace, y'all can utilise your mobile device. These photos will serve as digital copies for all of your documents.

    • Make sure that your photos are clear, and that all of the text on the documents is readable.
    • Y'all can too utilise a scanner to become digital copies of all of your documents. Many public libraries take these available for gratis, and accept staff on-hand to help you if yous demand assistance.

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    E-mail the photos or scans to yourself. You'll need to email the photos or scans of your documents to yourself so you're able to admission them on a figurer and upload them to your state's SNAP benefits portal. Most phones volition come with an option to e-post a photograph, if you lot click on the photo in your camera roll. You may demand to send multiple e-mails if at that place is a storage limit on how many photos you can send at in one case.

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    Download your photos from your electronic mail onto a calculator. When you download them, you should be given an selection to rename each photo's file with a title that explains what each photo contains. Or, you can write down each file's proper name, along with a note letting you know what each photo is.

    • Depending on how your country'southward web portal works, yous may be able to straight upload photos from your phone'southward photographic camera roll onto the SNAP awarding site, and won't need a computer. If that's the case, you lot will be redirected to your phone'southward photo library when you click on the 'Upload documents' section of the SNAP application. If yous need help getting to this application site, read on.

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    Log into your country's web portal for SNAP benefits. Each land has its ain SNAP web portal, administered by that state authorities. If you don't already have an account, you should follow the instructions in that location to set up one up. Yous can get to the web portal for SNAP benefits by clicking on the name of your state below:

    • Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Bailiwick of jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

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    Navigate to the document upload page. This page should be displayed conspicuously as part of your SNAP application.[iii]

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    Use the drop-downwardly menu to select the kind of certificate you're uploading. For instance, if you lot're trying to upload a re-create of your nascence certificate, pick the option "Birth Document," or, "Proof of Citizenship."[iv]

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    Upload your certificate. Click on the "Upload" or "File" push, and select the document you'd like to upload from your calculator. If you titled your certificate, you tin enter it into your estimator's search bar. If not, y'all'll likely find your certificate in the "Downloads" folder.[5]

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    Echo this process for all of your documents. You may want to brand a list and tick off all of the documents as y'all upload them, so you tin can exist sure that you've given your SNAP administrations all of the information you accept.[6]

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    Submit your awarding. When you're done uploading all of your documents, and accept filled out all other information in the application, hit the submit button at the cease of the awarding. Your benefits should exist approved within thirty days.[7]

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