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State programs in Arizona

Arizona runs its own programs for food, health, energy, and child care. This page names those programs and links to the official office. Their income limits are not verified, so no dollar cutoff is printed. We will not fill a blank with a guess. This site does not approve or deny benefits.

Which state programs still need a verified income limit? Figures below use the 2026 poverty guideline of $33,000 for a household of four in Arizona, unless the program uses its own dollar table.

The largest 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent gap among ranked metros in Arizona is $329: Phoenix at $1,734 and Tucson at $1,405.

Arizona taxes wages at a flat 2.50%. Combined state and local sales tax is 8.5%. The ACS effective property tax rate is 0.43%.

A household of four with $48,000 of income is about 145 percent of the $33,000 poverty guideline and is a maybe for State programs. Open these, but no state income limit is verified.

Limits behind the page

2026 poverty guideline in Arizona
Household100%138%185%
1$15,960$22,025$29,526
2$21,640$29,863$40,034
3$27,320$37,702$50,542
4$33,000$45,540$61,050

An illustrative household

Two adults, ages 34 and 32, filing jointly, plus children ages 8 and 3. Gross income $48,000 a year, about 145 percent of the poverty guideline in Arizona. They rent. Nobody is marked disabled or pregnant.

State programs

Maybe

Open these, but no state income limit is verified

  • Arizona SNAP office: SNAP in Arizona is run by the state human services agency. Many states raise the gross income test through broad-based categorical eligibility. That state percentage is not verified in this dataset, so the checker uses the federal 130 percent test only.
  • Arizona Medicaid and CHIP agency: Children's CHIP ceilings, pregnancy coverage, and parent coverage in non-expansion states are set by Arizona. Those percents of poverty are not stored unless a figure has been checked against a primary table.
  • Arizona energy assistance: LIHEAP grantees set income limits between 110 percent of the poverty guidelines and the greater of 150 percent of poverty or 60 percent of state median income. The percent this state chose is not verified here.
  • Arizona child care assistance: Child care subsidies are a state and local program. Income limits for Arizona are not in this dataset.
State program contacts for Arizona

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Food stamps (SNAP) tools in Arizona

Last checked: October 15, 2026

Sources

What changed
  • October 15, 2026. The benefit rules file was checked against the sources listed here.
  • January 15, 2026. HHS published the 2026 poverty guidelines in the Federal Register.

Other programs in Arizona

Large metros in Arizona

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