What happens to my WIC authorization if I lose SNAP?
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.
Retailers experience WIC and SNAP as two programs at one register, then discover the enforcement systems have almost nothing in common except that each one reads the other’s file.
Different agency, different clock
SNAP retailer sanctions come from USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. WIC vendor sanctions come from a state agency operating under federal rules, with state procedures and state deadlines that are often shorter. A notice from one doesn’t pause anything at the other.
Why they travel together
A WIC disqualification bears on business integrity for SNAP purposes, and a SNAP disqualification is routinely treated as grounds for WIC action. Some provisions make the crossover close to automatic. The practical result is that a store facing one is usually facing both within a few months.
One record, filed twice
The failure mode is two defenses: two accounts of the same shift, two slightly different sets of dates, and an inconsistency that speaks to the owner rather than the transaction. Build one evidentiary record - invoices, price files, register data, shelf photographs, training documents - and file it consistently. One advantage on the WIC side: many state appeals include a live hearing, which FNS review does not.
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.
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Tell us what happened. Eight fields, two minutes - and a lawyer reads it today.
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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.