Count the rows in the federal table of SNAP food restriction waivers and the total is 23 states. Take away four whose approvals a federal court vacated, plus Nebraska, which has no live date, and 18 states are left with a standing start date for limits on purchases of items like soda and candy. The Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) page, updated October 2, 2026, lists each date under a column headed “Target Implementation Date.”

The court order that removed four rows

The FNA waiver table quotes the order directly. On June 22, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, in Aragon et al. v. Rollins et al., No. 1:26-cv-00861, “ordered that FNA’s approval of the waiver be vacated.” The table carries that sentence on the rows for Colorado, Iowa, Tennessee and West Virginia, and those four show no implementation date.

Nebraska’s row still shows December 1, 2026, but FNA’s Nebraska page carries the same vacatur language, records that the state submitted a new waiver request on September 1, 2026, and says FNA is “working on a response.” No implementation date currently applies there. That is why Nebraska is not one of the 18, even though the summary table still prints a date.

For a household on SNAP, the question is whether its state is one of the 18 and, if so, which date applies. Anyone in a state whose date is November 1 has weeks to find out what the state agency says will be restricted, and anyone in Colorado, Iowa, Tennessee, West Virginia or Nebraska currently has no active implementation date in the federal table. A state absent from the table has no waiver listed there.

A purchase restriction is one change among several that a household’s renewal and reporting dates still have to survive. The SNAP & Medicaid Renewal Organizer includes 51 state packs, so the paperwork for a given state sits in one place.

Look up a state’s pack in the SNAP and Medicaid renewal organizer →

All eighteen, in date order

These are the states the table still lists with a date, grouped by whether the date has already passed as of October 6, 2026:

• Dates already passed (8): Indiana and Utah (January 1, 2026), Idaho and Oklahoma (February 15, 2026), Louisiana (February 18, 2026), Texas (April 1, 2026), Florida (April 20, 2026) and Arkansas (July 1, 2026).
• November 1, 2026 (5): Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia.
• Later dates (5): Wyoming (February 1, 2027), Kansas and Missouri (February 15, 2027), Hawaii (April 1, 2027) and Nevada (February 1, 2028).

The column is a target, a plan that depends on the approval staying in force, and a passed date in the table is not by itself proof that a store-level restriction is operating. The vacatur shows how a listed date can disappear: Colorado, Iowa, Tennessee and West Virginia had rows until the court order.

What a restricted item list changes at the register

The waivers work by restricting the purchase of what FNA calls non-nutritious items like soda and candy, with the stated aim that “taxpayer dollars provide nutritious options that improve health outcomes.” The table is a summary, and each state’s own page carries the definition of covered items and the effective details.

The federal table does not say how stores will signal a restriction at checkout, so that is a question for the state agency.

Why the number could move before November

The count of 18 is a snapshot of a page that changed as recently as October 2. Nebraska’s pending request is the visible case: if FNA approves it, the state would regain a row, and a new vacatur or approval would shift the count either way. Because each of the five November 1 states has a date within weeks, any further court or agency action would show up first on the same table.

Checking a state’s date on the FNA table and with the state agency

The route that costs nothing is the FNA food restriction waiver page itself, which links each state’s row, followed by the state SNAP agency named in the household’s benefit notice. Start by finding the state in the list of 23, then read whether its row shows a date, a vacatur, or a pending request.

Gather the state’s SNAP notice, the current renewal and reporting dates, and the name of the local office. Compare the state’s target date with today’s date, note whether the state is among the November 1 five, and check the state agency’s own page for the list of covered items before the date arrives. The FNA table, updated October 2, 2026, is the source for the date.

To keep those dates beside the household’s own deadlines, The SNAP & Medicaid Renewal Organizer holds a renewal and reporting calendar and a renewal document checklist in a 13-page organizer.

Click here to get The SNAP & Medicaid Renewal Organizer →

This piece was drafted with AI assistance; the figures and dates were checked against the FNA food restriction waiver page and its Nebraska page, both updated October 2, 2026 and linked above.