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Using Your Benefits

NJ SNAP benefits are issued on a Families First Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) carte that works similar a debit card. This card can exist used in most grocery stores and some participating farmers marketplace. You lot tin can find participating grocery stores past clicking hither.

Benefits tin can exist used online at:

ALDI
Amazon
BJ's
Nutrient Bazaar
ShopRite
Stop&Shop
The Fresh Grocer
Walmart
Foodtown (but Foodtown locations in Monmouth County: Port Monmouth, Atlantic Highlands, Cherry-red Banking company, Ocean Girt, and Body of water)

Recipients seeking to gild from these online stores should check with their local store about online SNAP availability. Benefits cannot be used to pay for delivery or other service fees. Be sure to confirm an online store delivers to your habitation address earlier ordering.

Some online orders are completed using Instacart. More information about how to use your EBT benefits on Instacart can exist constitute here.

Benefits are deposited into your account when the application is approved. Each month that you are notwithstanding eligible, benefits will be deposited at the beginning of the month. Your benefits cannot be given to another person and you cannot sell the items you purchased with your SNAP benefits.

The card can be used at the grocery store, like you would use a debit card, to spend your NJ SNAP benefits. You will demand to enter a secret Personal Identification Number (PIN), which should never exist shared with anyone.

NJ SNAP tin be used to purchase food like:

Fruits and vegetables;
Beans, fish, poultry, meat;
Rice, bread, tortillas, cereal;
Milk and cheese; and
Seeds and plants that produce food.

NJ SNAP cannot exist used to buy:

Booze, tobacco, cigarettes;
Not-nutrient items (pet food, toilet paper, diapers, soap, etc.);
Vitamins and medicine;
Hot and prepared food or meals.

If y'all already take a Families Beginning bill of fare, y'all can create an online account by visiting NJFamiliesFirst.com. If you take an business relationship, you lot can check your remainder, change your Pin and/or report a lost or stolen card.

EBT Brochure (English) (PDF)
EBT Brochure (Spanish)(PDF)

If yous are receiving cash assistance, when you are shopping in person, you can use your Families First bill of fare to withdraw cash from an ATM with the Quest® logo. Y'all also can utilize the card to buy items that are non immune under NJ SNAP.

ConnectEBT App

The ConnectEBT App is bachelor for SNAP recipients to:

Bank check the balance on your Families First menu
Confirm you lot concluding eolith
Change your PIN
Review up to 12 months of transaction history

The app is costless and available in English language and Spanish. Yous can download it in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

In one case installed, you lot will need to verify your identity and then you will be able to log in or create a new business relationship. The user proper noun and password is the same as your online account at NJFamiliesFirst.com, if you already have an account. If you create a new account on the app, your user name and password volition also work at NJFamiliesFirst.com.

It is illegal to use the Families First Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card at any of these locations:

Liquor Stores
Casino/Gaming
Developed Entertainment/Establishments Strip Clubs

This is a federal law!

Farmer's Markets are great sources of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods. Use your SNAP benefits at these local markets.

ConnectEBT App

Download the ConnectEBT App in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store to check your remainder, confirm your last deposit, modify your Pin and review upwardly to 12 months of transaction history.