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Benefits in Georgia
2026 income limits and how to apply for SNAP, WIC, Medicaid and other help in Georgia. A family of four can earn up to $3,575 a month before taxes and still meet the SNAP gross income test.
- People below poverty
- 1,430,012
- 13.4% of residents (ACS 2020-2024)
- Median household income
- $77,353
- ACS 2020-2024
- Medicaid expansion
- No
- Adult coverage is limited
- Poverty guideline, 4 people
- $33,000
- 2026, 48 states and D.C.
Food assistance income limits in Georgia
SNAP limits apply 10/01/2026 to 09/30/2027. WIC limits apply 07/01/2026 to 06/30/2027.
| Household size | Poverty guideline (2026, yearly) | SNAP gross (monthly) | SNAP net (monthly) | WIC (yearly) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $15,960 | $1,729 | $1,330 | $29,526 |
| 2 people | $21,640 | $2,345 | $1,804 | $40,034 |
| 3 people | $27,320 | $2,960 | $2,277 | $50,542 |
| 4 people | $33,000 | $3,575 | $2,750 | $61,050 |
| 5 people | $38,680 | $4,191 | $3,224 | $71,558 |
| 6 people | $44,360 | $4,806 | $3,697 | $82,066 |
| 7 people | $50,040 | $5,421 | $4,170 | $92,574 |
| 8 people | $55,720 | $6,037 | $4,644 | $103,082 |
For each additional person, add $5,680 to the yearly poverty guideline. Figures are rounded up to the next dollar, as agencies do. Source: HHS 2026 poverty guidelines for the 48 contiguous states and D.C.
Health, energy and phone income limits in Georgia
Georgia has not expanded Medicaid, so the 138% adult limit does not apply; children, pregnant women and some parents can still qualify. LIHEAP shows the federal maximum; Georgia may use a different limit.
| Household size | Lifeline (yearly) | LIHEAP max (yearly) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $21,546 | $23,940 |
| 2 people | $29,214 | $32,460 |
| 3 people | $36,882 | $40,980 |
| 4 people | $44,550 | $49,500 |
| 5 people | $52,218 | $58,020 |
| 6 people | $59,886 | $66,540 |
| 7 people | $67,554 | $75,060 |
| 8 people | $75,222 | $83,580 |
For each additional person, add $5,680 to the yearly poverty guideline. Figures are rounded up to the next dollar, as agencies do. Source: HHS 2026 poverty guidelines for the 48 contiguous states and D.C.
Where to apply in Georgia
Official finders that list the agency for your state
- State agencies
- Georgia on USA.gov
- Medicaid
- Apply through HealthCare.gov
- SSDI
- Apply at SSA.gov
- LIHEAP
- Find your LIHEAP office
- Unemployment
- Find your state unemployment office
- Pell Grant
- Start the FAFSA
- Section 8
- Find your public housing agency
Food
- SNAP: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ProgramSNAP, once called food stamps, gives monthly benefits on an EBT card to buy groceries at authorized stores.
- WIC: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and ChildrenWIC provides healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding support and referrals for pregnant and postpartum women, infants and children under 5.
Health care
- MedicaidMedicaid provides free or low-cost health coverage to people with low incomes, including children, pregnant women, parents, seniors and people with disabilities.
- CHIP: Children's Health Insurance ProgramCHIP gives low-cost health coverage to children in families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. Some states also cover pregnant women.
Income
- SSI: Supplemental Security IncomeSSI pays monthly benefits to people with limited income and resources who are 65 or older, blind or disabled, including children with disabilities.
- SSDI: Social Security Disability InsuranceSSDI pays monthly benefits to people who cannot work because of a disability expected to last at least a year or result in death, and who have worked long enough in jobs covered by Social Security.
Utilities and phone
Housing
School and work
- Unemployment: Unemployment InsuranceUnemployment insurance replaces part of your wages for a limited time if you lose your job through no fault of your own.
- Pell Grant: Federal Pell GrantsPell Grants help undergraduate students with financial need pay for college. Unlike loans, they usually do not need to be repaid.
Households getting benefits by county in Georgia
Share of households that received each benefit in the last 12 months (ACS 2020-2024). Select a county for details.
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| County | Households getting SNAP | SSI | Social Security | Cash assistance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appling County | 19.6% | 8.0% | 34.6% | 2.5% |
| Atkinson County | 26.2% | 7.3% | 27.5% | 1.5% |
| Bacon County | 20.9% | 6.0% | 37.8% | 2.3% |
| Baker County | 15.2% | 13.7% | 46.7% | 2.0% |
| Baldwin County | 16.2% | 5.9% | 34.2% | 3.6% |
| Banks County | 9.0% | 4.4% | 35.4% | 0.4% |
| Barrow County | 8.7% | 4.7% | 28.1% | 1.7% |
| Bartow County | 8.7% | 5.2% | 28.5% | 2.1% |
| Ben Hill County | 21.3% | 8.1% | 35.0% | 1.7% |
| Berrien County | 23.5% | 10.6% | 38.4% | 3.9% |
| Bibb County | 22.3% | 9.1% | 32.7% | 2.4% |
| Bleckley County | 22.4% | 11.4% | 38.3% | 4.4% |
| Brantley County | 18.9% | 6.5% | 41.9% | 3.8% |
| Brooks County | 20.7% | 7.3% | 39.7% | 2.7% |
| Bryan County | 7.9% | 4.5% | 24.2% | 1.3% |
| Bulloch County | 16.5% | 6.0% | 26.1% | 1.4% |
| Burke County | 18.9% | 7.3% | 39.6% | 1.7% |
| Butts County | 14.8% | 7.4% | 36.5% | 1.6% |
| Calhoun County | 34.3% | 8.3% | 40.9% | 1.1% |
| Camden County | 10.5% | 5.2% | 29.8% | 2.8% |
| Candler County | 22.5% | 8.3% | 40.9% | 2.1% |
| Carroll County | 14.5% | 6.1% | 33.4% | 2.2% |
| Catoosa County | 11.8% | 4.3% | 36.2% | 1.7% |
| Charlton County | 25.2% | 9.1% | 40.9% | 1.1% |
| Chatham County | 11.8% | 5.5% | 31.2% | 1.4% |
| Chattahoochee County | 22.5% | 2.2% | 21.0% | 2.5% |
| Chattooga County | 18.8% | 8.2% | 42.0% | 8.9% |
| Cherokee County | 3.5% | 2.6% | 28.9% | 1.1% |
| Clarke County | 9.4% | 4.0% | 23.4% | 1.9% |
| Clay County | 26.2% | 9.2% | 42.1% | 0.0% |
| Clayton County | 19.3% | 5.4% | 25.1% | 2.4% |
| Clinch County | 25.4% | 6.8% | 39.0% | 2.6% |
| Cobb County | 6.2% | 2.5% | 23.6% | 1.5% |
| Coffee County | 20.0% | 5.1% | 33.1% | 1.5% |
| Colquitt County | 19.7% | 10.5% | 32.7% | 2.1% |
| Columbia County | 6.7% | 3.5% | 30.0% | 1.8% |
| Cook County | 15.3% | 6.7% | 33.2% | 1.4% |
| Coweta County | 6.9% | 4.8% | 29.2% | 2.4% |
| Crawford County | 14.4% | 8.8% | 42.5% | 1.7% |
| Crisp County | 26.9% | 7.0% | 41.3% | 2.1% |
| Dade County | 10.5% | 5.2% | 43.3% | 2.4% |
| Dawson County | 7.1% | 3.1% | 34.3% | 0.8% |
| Decatur County | 22.8% | 6.7% | 36.9% | 2.2% |
| DeKalb County | 12.8% | 4.7% | 25.2% | 2.3% |
| Dodge County | 22.2% | 9.6% | 44.1% | 5.2% |
| Dooly County | 17.6% | 6.8% | 41.8% | 0.9% |
| Dougherty County | 29.0% | 10.5% | 36.4% | 2.0% |
| Douglas County | 12.8% | 5.0% | 26.1% | 1.9% |
| Early County | 26.2% | 8.3% | 39.9% | 2.4% |
| Echols County | 20.3% | 9.3% | 33.4% | 2.4% |
| Effingham County | 7.8% | 5.3% | 27.1% | 1.6% |
| Elbert County | 15.4% | 9.2% | 41.5% | 1.3% |
| Emanuel County | 27.0% | 5.4% | 38.5% | 2.1% |
| Evans County | 19.6% | 4.8% | 36.5% | 4.5% |
| Fannin County | 13.4% | 4.4% | 48.9% | 1.8% |
| Fayette County | 4.8% | 3.6% | 34.3% | 1.2% |
| Floyd County | 14.9% | 5.6% | 35.0% | 2.2% |
| Forsyth County | 2.2% | 2.0% | 23.4% | 0.8% |
| Franklin County | 14.7% | 5.9% | 41.0% | 2.1% |
| Fulton County | 11.6% | 4.0% | 21.0% | 1.7% |
| Gilmer County | 9.6% | 6.6% | 50.5% | 1.1% |
| Glascock County | 19.2% | 9.0% | 40.4% | 3.8% |
| Glynn County | 12.4% | 6.1% | 40.6% | 2.3% |
| Gordon County | 10.2% | 6.3% | 34.0% | 1.4% |
| Grady County | 20.3% | 9.2% | 37.5% | 1.5% |
| Greene County | 7.2% | 4.9% | 48.9% | 0.5% |
| Gwinnett County | 7.8% | 3.4% | 22.4% | 2.0% |
| Habersham County | 13.4% | 5.8% | 37.9% | 1.6% |
| Hall County | 9.6% | 4.1% | 32.5% | 1.9% |
| Hancock County | 29.8% | 15.6% | 49.0% | 1.2% |
| Haralson County | 14.1% | 6.7% | 35.0% | 1.6% |
| Harris County | 10.1% | 6.7% | 38.6% | 1.1% |
| Hart County | 10.4% | 5.3% | 41.2% | 0.8% |
| Heard County | 25.3% | 11.0% | 38.0% | 1.8% |
| Henry County | 10.5% | 5.1% | 28.2% | 1.8% |
| Houston County | 10.3% | 4.7% | 26.3% | 1.3% |
| Irwin County | 14.8% | 1.3% | 36.0% | 1.3% |
| Jackson County | 7.5% | 4.1% | 31.6% | 2.8% |
| Jasper County | 11.7% | 6.2% | 35.0% | 1.0% |
| Jeff Davis County | 17.1% | 8.6% | 36.1% | 2.3% |
| Jefferson County | 22.3% | 8.5% | 38.9% | 2.6% |
| Jenkins County | 21.3% | 9.8% | 50.2% | 1.2% |
| Johnson County | 25.0% | 9.1% | 38.9% | 1.8% |
| Jones County | 14.8% | 5.9% | 38.4% | 5.0% |
| Lamar County | 13.5% | 7.6% | 37.6% | 3.5% |
| Lanier County | 19.2% | 4.5% | 32.6% | 1.3% |
| Laurens County | 20.5% | 5.8% | 42.3% | 3.9% |
| Lee County | 9.5% | 3.8% | 28.2% | 0.6% |
| Liberty County | 16.0% | 6.0% | 24.8% | 2.0% |
| Lincoln County | 11.6% | 4.3% | 45.8% | 0.1% |
| Long County | 18.2% | 9.4% | 24.7% | 2.3% |
| Lowndes County | 16.2% | 5.5% | 28.5% | 1.9% |
| Lumpkin County | 9.2% | 5.8% | 36.9% | 2.2% |
| Macon County | 27.1% | 11.5% | 40.7% | 3.3% |
| Madison County | 12.2% | 5.5% | 39.4% | 2.3% |
| Marion County | 21.5% | 8.6% | 38.9% | 2.3% |
| McDuffie County | 17.0% | 6.7% | 36.1% | 1.7% |
| McIntosh County | 21.8% | 9.5% | 46.1% | 1.5% |
| Meriwether County | 23.0% | 9.3% | 42.5% | 2.4% |
| Miller County | 17.6% | 6.6% | 38.7% | 1.5% |
| Mitchell County | 27.4% | 8.7% | 39.7% | 1.7% |
| Monroe County | 5.9% | 5.0% | 36.7% | 1.1% |
| Montgomery County | 17.9% | 6.5% | 35.4% | 3.3% |
| Morgan County | 11.3% | 4.6% | 38.5% | 2.1% |
| Murray County | 12.3% | 8.3% | 30.9% | 1.3% |
| Muscogee County | 16.8% | 8.0% | 29.8% | 2.2% |
| Newton County | 13.6% | 6.4% | 32.0% | 2.9% |
| Oconee County | 2.8% | 3.2% | 30.4% | 1.6% |
| Oglethorpe County | 12.1% | 5.5% | 40.2% | 0.6% |
| Paulding County | 8.0% | 4.3% | 25.8% | 2.2% |
| Peach County | 18.8% | 6.1% | 32.9% | 2.5% |
| Pickens County | 9.7% | 2.7% | 42.9% | 1.5% |
| Pierce County | 11.6% | 4.1% | 36.7% | 1.7% |
| Pike County | 5.2% | 3.7% | 33.3% | 1.5% |
| Polk County | 17.3% | 6.3% | 35.5% | 4.3% |
| Pulaski County | 14.9% | 7.8% | 46.4% | 2.7% |
| Putnam County | 11.0% | 7.4% | 39.3% | 0.9% |
| Quitman County | 22.7% | 3.7% | 61.6% | 0.1% |
| Rabun County | 7.2% | 3.0% | 45.6% | 1.9% |
| Randolph County | 39.4% | 9.8% | 35.9% | 1.1% |
| Richmond County | 21.1% | 7.9% | 32.3% | 3.2% |
| Rockdale County | 12.2% | 5.8% | 31.7% | 2.2% |
| Schley County | 15.4% | 7.4% | 31.3% | 2.1% |
| Screven County | 13.7% | 10.6% | 39.1% | 0.7% |
| Seminole County | 21.3% | 8.2% | 48.1% | 1.2% |
| Spalding County | 18.5% | 7.4% | 38.9% | 2.2% |
| Stephens County | 14.5% | 6.9% | 41.5% | 1.9% |
| Stewart County | 33.7% | 11.4% | 35.0% | 0.3% |
| Sumter County | 21.9% | 9.1% | 36.5% | 3.0% |
| Talbot County | 23.1% | 10.6% | 47.1% | 1.5% |
| Taliaferro County | 25.9% | 8.7% | 53.2% | 3.6% |
| Tattnall County | 22.2% | 8.4% | 34.8% | 3.5% |
| Taylor County | 34.1% | 10.3% | 38.3% | 2.5% |
| Telfair County | 27.9% | 4.7% | 45.4% | 3.6% |
| Terrell County | 24.4% | 11.5% | 40.3% | 1.2% |
| Thomas County | 20.4% | 8.1% | 35.3% | 1.7% |
| Tift County | 17.7% | 3.9% | 31.5% | 1.1% |
| Toombs County | 22.5% | 11.2% | 35.7% | 2.9% |
| Towns County | 7.5% | 6.0% | 55.8% | 1.5% |
| Treutlen County | 22.3% | 15.5% | 35.6% | 0.7% |
| Troup County | 19.3% | 7.4% | 33.3% | 1.7% |
| Turner County | 32.5% | 8.6% | 44.4% | 1.6% |
| Twiggs County | 21.8% | 10.2% | 55.0% | 3.3% |
| Union County | 7.4% | 4.8% | 55.2% | 1.8% |
| Upson County | 22.7% | 9.2% | 37.7% | 2.0% |
| Walker County | 12.0% | 5.3% | 38.2% | 1.9% |
| Walton County | 11.5% | 5.0% | 35.0% | 2.1% |
| Ware County | 21.9% | 8.3% | 39.3% | 1.8% |
| Warren County | 22.3% | 6.3% | 43.3% | 3.8% |
| Washington County | 29.4% | 10.5% | 43.5% | 2.1% |
| Wayne County | 20.2% | 8.4% | 35.0% | 1.5% |
| Webster County | 28.7% | 5.8% | 50.1% | 4.7% |
| Wheeler County | 23.5% | 12.6% | 58.0% | 1.0% |
| White County | 9.7% | 5.0% | 42.2% | 0.9% |
| Whitfield County | 11.2% | 4.6% | 31.0% | 1.7% |
| Wilcox County | 20.2% | 6.4% | 45.6% | 4.3% |
| Wilkes County | 17.6% | 4.9% | 46.6% | 2.7% |
| Wilkinson County | 15.3% | 7.0% | 44.8% | 1.0% |
| Worth County | 21.4% | 6.1% | 41.0% | 0.9% |
Frequently asked questions
- What is the SNAP income limit in Georgia?
- For 10/01/2026 to 09/30/2027, a household of one in Georgia can have gross monthly income up to $1,729, and a household of four up to $3,575. Net income after deductions must be at or below $1,330 and $2,750. Households with an elderly or disabled member only need to meet the net limit.
- Did Georgia expand Medicaid?
- No. As of August 2026, Georgia is one of 10 states that have not adopted the Medicaid expansion, so most adults without children or disabilities do not qualify on income alone.
- What is the WIC income limit in Georgia?
- A household of four in Georgia can earn up to $61,050 a year (185% of the 2026 poverty guidelines) to qualify for WIC. A pregnant woman counts as two or more people.
- How many people in Georgia live below the poverty line?
- About 1,430,012 people in Georgia, or 13.4% of residents, had incomes below the poverty level in the American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.