Arizona 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 Arizona.

Arizona operates a SNAP Restaurant Meals Program. Eligible elderly, disabled, or homeless SNAP participants (and their spouses) can use their EBT card to buy prepared meals at participating restaurants statewide.

Source: USDA Food and Nutrition Administration — Restaurant Meals Program

There's some disagreement online about Arizona's SNAP income limit — some secondary guides cite 185% of the federal poverty level, but the current, authoritative source is the USDA Food and Nutrition Administration's own Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility chart (updated June 2026), which lists Arizona's gross income limit at 200% of the federal poverty level. That 200% figure is what Arizona currently uses.

In plain terms, that means Arizona allows many more moderate-income households to qualify for Nutrition Assistance than the strict federal minimum of 130% would allow, and it generally does so without imposing a separate asset or savings limit on those households.