October 2025 CalFresh Deposit Dates: This Month’s California Food Stamps Payment Schedule
If you are a California CalFresh recipient, it is also essential that you know when your benefit deposit has been deposited so that you can prepare your grocery shopping. Below is all that you should know about the October 2025 CalFresh payment schedule, payment processing, and what to do if your deposit is late.
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What is CalFresh?
CalFresh is the California state program implementing the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). CalFresh permits low-income families and individuals to buy food with an EBT card, a debit card.
The state puts your benefits into every month, and you are able to withdraw them at the store, at the farmer’s market, and at other approved venues. Your deposit is made monthly according to the last digit of your case number.
The program for the first ten days of the month, so that the state may avoid processing or EBT system technical issue lines.
When deposits are made each month
Your CalFresh benefits are deposited into your account on a designated day of the month based on the last digit of your case number:
- Case number ends with 1 → deposit on the 1st
- Case number ends with 2 → deposit on the 2nd
- Case number ends with 3 → deposit on the 3rd
- Case number followed by 4 → 4th deposit
- Case number completed with 5 → 5th deposit
- Case number completed with 6 → 6th deposit
- Case number completed with 7 → 7th deposit
- Case number completed with 8 → 8th deposit
- Case number completed with 9 → 9th deposit
- Case number completed with 0 → 10th deposit
Money will most likely post somewhere around midnight, your date when it of availability, but the actual time will vary a few minutes from county to county.
October 2025 deposit dates
Same routine for October 2025. Handy table below:
| Case Number Ending | Deposit Date |
| —————— | ———— |
| 1 | October 1
| 2 | October 2
| 3 | 3 October
| 4 | 4 October
| 5 | October 5
| 6 | October 6
| 7 | October 7
| 8 | October 8
| 9 | October 9
| 0 | October 10
This calendar makes it easy for the recipients to plan their shopping and money for the next month.
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Why your deposits will be late
Although CalFresh deposits are usually on time, there are a couple of situations where your benefits would not be deposited on the due date:
1. In-process or delayed recertification: Your case may be in process for recertification, and the deposit would then be late until that point.
2. Administrative issues at the county level: There are some instances when local offices do have delays or errors in payments.
3. Technical issues with the Electronic Benefit Transfer system: Malfunctioning software or a midnight change causes a delay of a few hours in depositing.
4. Obsolescence in contact data: If your address, phone number, or e-mail has changed, you are not receiving deposit notices.
If your benefit has not turned up by midday on your benefit day, you’ll have to call your local CalFresh office to inquire about your account.
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For the latest news and information regarding your CalFresh benefits:
- Visit your county social services office website
- Call your local CalFresh office
- Call the EBT card customer service phone number
- By so doing, you will get your benefits on time and shop stress-free.
Final tips
- Know your case number: Your deposit day is shown by the last digit.
- Plan and shop: Deposits are received in the first ten days of every month.
- Delayed reports: If your deposit has not yet been received, call your county office immediately.
These simple steps will put your CalFresh benefits into circulation and allow your household to purchase October 2025 food expenses.
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