124,381 fewer people were enrolled in Georgia’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in June 2026 than in May 2026, according to USDA’s state-level participation table. The state’s SNAP count fell from 1,320,870 people to 1,196,489 in a single month, a decline of about 9.4 percent.
USDA marks both May and June 2026 as preliminary for Georgia, meaning the state’s figures could still be revised as the agency finishes its caseload reporting. The change shows up in the same state-by-state table that also records most states’ SNAP participation as lower in June 2026 than it was a year earlier.
The scope of Georgia’s one-month change
Georgia’s SNAP caseload measured 1,320,870 people in May 2026 and 1,196,489 in June 2026, according to USDA’s state-level persons table, last updated September 18, 2026. The difference, 124,381 people, is about 9.4 percent of the May total.
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Two preliminary months in a row
USDA labels both May and June 2026 as preliminary in the state table, the same designation the agency uses on its national monthly figures. A preliminary count means the agency expects some adjustment once every state finishes reporting for the month, so the size of the 124,381-person drop could change somewhat once USDA finalizes Georgia’s data.
Because both months carry that label, a later revision could move the gap from either direction. If USDA revises Georgia’s May total once the state finishes reporting, the size of the reported drop would shift even without any change to June’s number, and a revision to June’s preliminary count would change the gap without touching May’s figure at all.
How Georgia’s one-month change compares in scale
The same state table that recorded Georgia’s 124,381-person drop also shows Texas’s SNAP participation falling by 646,356 people over an entire year, from June 2025 to June 2026. Georgia’s one-month change is roughly a fifth the size of Texas’s twelve-month decline, compressed into a single reporting period rather than spread across a year.
Georgia’s month inside its own yearlong decline
Georgia’s May-to-June drop is not the state’s only decline this year. The same USDA table shows Georgia’s SNAP participation falling from 1,472,812 people in June 2025 to 1,196,489 in June 2026, a decrease of about 18.8 percent. The single month between May and June accounted for roughly 45 percent of that entire yearlong decline, concentrating a large share of Georgia’s twelve-month change into one reporting period rather than spreading it evenly across the year.
What the count measures
Georgia’s 124,381-person change comes from a table that counts individual SNAP recipients rather than households. USDA’s separate national monthly table breaks the same program’s participation into both households and people each month, but the state-level table used for Georgia’s figures does not include a household column, so this article describes Georgia’s month-over-month change in people throughout.
Georgia inside the wider state pattern
Georgia’s month-over-month change sits inside a state table that also compares June 2026 with June 2025. On that longer measure, Georgia’s decline is part of a pattern that touched nearly every state, with only Alaska and North Dakota recording a higher June 2026 count than a year earlier in the same USDA table.
USDA’s separate national monthly table lists a fiscal year 2025 average of 42,145,499 people nationwide across every state. Georgia’s June 2026 total of 1,196,489 is a small fraction of that national figure, but the size of Georgia’s one-month change shows how unevenly the broader decline has landed across different states and months.
Nationally, USDA’s separate monthly table shows total SNAP participation falling from 41,678,341 people in June 2025 to 36,352,716 in June 2026, a drop of about 12.8 percent. Georgia’s single-month decline is one piece of a caseload contraction that shows up at both the state and national level in USDA’s data.
What the state table doesn’t say
The persons table records totals only; it does not explain why Georgia’s SNAP caseload moved as much as it did between May and June. The Food and Nutrition Administration’s SNAP data page hosts the table without a state-specific narrative, and its next scheduled update is what will show whether Georgia’s June figure holds once the preliminary tag is removed.
The county- or district-level detail behind Georgia’s statewide total is not part of the same USDA table, which reports only a single monthly figure for the state as a whole, the same level of detail used for every other state and territory in the same report.
The state table itself lists its figures as current “as of September 11, 2026,” a week before the Food and Nutrition Administration’s data page notes it was updated. The gap between those two dates is a reminder that the underlying report and the page hosting it do not always carry the same timestamp, even when both describe the same set of numbers.
The recertification step a caseload swing doesn’t skip
A one-month change as large as Georgia’s still leaves individual cases needing their own recertification, whether the swing reflects normal turnover or a processing catch-up. The costly gap is a household assuming a statewide drop applies to its own case without confirming what its next renewal actually requires.
The SNAP & Medicaid Renewal Organizer includes a renewal document checklist and a renewal and reporting calendar for confirming what a state expects at recertification and when.
Look up state recertification requirements in The SNAP & Medicaid Renewal Organizer.
This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor. Figures are linked to their primary sources.
