The state Health Department, which administers the SNAP program now, has released some information about the next steps.

This week, state officials decided to pay SNAP benefits to homes with elderly, disabled or children.

If only "able-bodied adults" are in the home, they won't get any SNAP benefits. In Louisiana, people who aren't elderly, children or disabled do have work requirements to get SNAP; they include accepting any job that is offered them, and maintaining at least 30 hours per week. To read them, click here .

We asked how many of the estimated 59,000 "able-bodied adults" are working; LDH did not respond to us.

Here's what the LDH release states about how the benefits will be distributed:

Every SNAP-eligible household has a set day of the month when benefits are issued. S

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