Alabama EBT Card Balance

Your EBT card works like a debit card at any USDA-authorized retailer nationwide — major grocery chains and big-box stores such as Walmart, Target, Kroger, Costco, Sam's Club, Aldi, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and most local and regional supermarkets, plus many convenience stores and farmers markets. A growing number of retailers, including Walmart.com, Amazon, DoorDash, and Uber Eats, also accept SNAP EBT for online grocery orders in many areas, though delivery and service fees usually can't be paid with benefits.

SNAP benefits cover food and food-producing seeds or plants, but not hot prepared foods, alcohol, tobacco, or non-food items — some states also restrict specific items like soda or candy, noted below if it applies to Alabama.

The federal government's standard rule for SNAP is that a household's gross monthly income can't exceed 130% of the federal poverty level. Alabama follows that standard limit rather than raising it further — unlike many other states, Alabama has not adopted a broader Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility policy that lifts the ceiling to 200%.

In practice, that means most Alabama households need gross income at or below 130% of the poverty line to qualify for the Food Assistance Program, though households where everyone is elderly or has a disability only have to meet a net income test after deductions, not the gross income test.