Food Assistance

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – formerly known as food stamps – helps Minnesotans with low incomes get the food they need for nutritious and well-balanced meals. If you are approved for SNAP, you can use your benefits at many stores, farmers markets and senior dining sites.

• Learn more about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
• To replace your EBT card, call 888-997-2227.

To apply for SNAP visit: mnbenefits.mn.gov.

Please submit only one application. Submitting multiple applications through different channels will delay the processing of your application.

After an application is submitted and assigned, your assigned financial worker will call you for your phone interview.

Due to high volumes, the current processing of applications and wait times are longer than usual. County staff are working to decrease backlogs and may call after business hours and on weekends to conduct phone interviews. Beginning in March, residents can expect to receive phone calls after 4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. for intake interviews. 

Clients can submit applications and verifications using MNbenefits, fax to 651-266-3942, mailed to 160 E. Kellogg Blvd St Paul, MN 55101 or drop them off in a form drop box at sites throughout the county. See form drop-off & walk-in assistance sites.

The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program provides supplemental foods to promote good health for pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, infants and children under five.

• Learn more about the WIC program.

The Minnesota Family Investment Program helps families and pregnant women who have low income go to work and move toward financial stability. The program provides food assistance, employment services and income assistance.

• Watch this video about the Minnesota Family Investment program. (The video is also available in Español, Hmoob, and Soomaali.)​

More information about the Minnesota Family Investment Program.

The State of Minnesota offers a Senior Nutrition Program that includes senior dining sites and home-delivered meals in communities throughout Minnesota. People age 60 or older may participate in the Senior Nutrition Program. Their spouse also may participate, even if they are not 60 or older.

• Learn more about the Senior Nutrition Program.

The Minnesota Food Assistance Program provides state-funded food assistance to legal non-citizens age 50 or older who do not qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because of their citizenship status.

• Learn more about the Minnesota Food Assistance Program.