Here are two Excel "calculators" which can be used to estimate the amount of monthly SNAP benefits you may be eligible for in Massachusetts. 

The "detailed/printable" SNAP calculator has a few more SNAP math calculations to get at detailed situations - such as identifying detailed shelter or child care costs, calculating child support from earned income, elder/disabled households with income over 200% FPL. It performs a Bay State Cap calculation for SSI-only households with no earnings. You can then print out a summary sheet of the calculations similar to DTA notices.

The "simplified" SNAP calculator is shorter for routine calculations. It does not identify source of income for child support payments, type of shelter or child care deduction nor perform a Bay State CAP calculation.

Note that these calculators are intended as a convenience tool only and will result in an estimate of benefit amounts; DTA makes the final determination of eligibility and benefits amount. (Both calculators require that a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice be loaded on your computer.) Please report any incorrect results to Pat Baker.

Download the Calculators

• Download the Simplified SNAP Calculator  
• Download the Detailed/Printable SNAP Calculator 

(Note - make sure that when downloading, you actually save the calculators to your computer, and you aren't simply opening them in your browser.  Depending upon your browser settings, you may need to right click and select the "save target as" option.)

There is also a web-based step-by-step eligibility calculator at Project Bread's gettingfoodstamps.org site which may be simpler for SNAP/ food stamps recipients to use.

Finally, a one page worksheet for manual calculations is available here, www.masslegalservices.org/content/food-stamp-snap-calculation-worksheet