Do I need a lawyer for a SNAP charge letter?
7 CFR 278.6(b)(1)
We owe loyalty to only you.
When you’re looking online, you have multiple options. There are so many firms advertising SNAP defense. Thankfully, your search is over. Spodek Law Group P.C. offers premier white-glove service and we’re unafraid of fighting. Unlike firms that are more focused on their relationship with the agency than with you, we owe loyalty to only YOU. Your store, your family, your license.
One reason our firm has such a high success rate is that we’re selective about who we work with. If we’re choosing to work with you, it’s because we think we can make a positive impact. That’s vastly different from firms that take on any client willing to pay. When you reach out, you start with a risk-free consultation - and you can ask us anything you want, regardless of how long it takes.
If there’s a way to keep your store in the program, we’ll find it. That’s the whole job.
Some administrative letters can be answered by the person who received them. This isn’t usually one of them, for three specific reasons.
The trap that can’t be undone
In a trafficking case the civil money penalty in lieu must be requested in writing inside the same ten days. Owners answering alone almost never know this exists, and 278.6(b)(2)(iii) makes the omission permanent - it can’t be cured on administrative review or in federal court.
The response is an evidentiary exercise
FNS decides on substantial evidence and the most probable explanation. A letter of denial adds nothing. What moves the file is a transaction-by-transaction answer supported by invoices, itemized register exports, inventory counts, photographs and a dated compliance file - assembled and indexed in nine days.
The criminal flank
Where the figures are large, the USDA Office of Inspector General may already be interested, and anything written to FNS can be read by a prosecutor. The administrative response has to be drafted with that in view. Because the whole proceeding is on paper, counsel doesn’t need to be in your state - it needs to have done this work. Our consultation costs nothing and happens the day you call.
When the biggest cases break, we get the call. That same team answers your ten days.
When the networks need a federal file explained in plain English, they call us.
This bench answers its own phone. Put it on your case.
Tell us what happened. Eight fields, two minutes - and a lawyer reads it today.
Read us the first line of the letter. We’ll tell you what day you’re on.
Bring the envelope, the attachment, and your invoices if you have them. If you don’t have them, bring the letter. The consultation is risk-free, it stays between us, and it happens today - ask us anything, regardless of how long it takes.