What records do I need to answer a SNAP charge letter?
7 CFR 278.6(b)(1)
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If there’s a way to keep your store in the program, we’ll find it. That’s the whole job.
A response isn’t a letter saying you did nothing wrong. It’s a rebuilt record, and the raw material is ordinary business paperwork most owners already have and never think to produce.
The envelope and the attachment
Keep the envelope - the certified mail record fixes the receipt date, and the receipt date fixes your ten days. Then read every page of the transaction attachment, because each flagged line is a question about a specific date and amount that needs a specific answer.
Purchases and sales
Wholesale invoices for every supplier across the review period, cash-and-carry receipts included, show the food existed to sell. Itemized register data - POS exports, Z-tapes, receipt detail - shows what was actually in the basket. FNS works from dollar amounts; a basket list against an amount is the most persuasive document in these cases.
The compliance file
Written store rules in any language, signed and dated training acknowledgements, photographs of register signage, the employee handbook, schedules for the flagged shifts, and any write-up or termination. Where trafficking is charged this file is the substance of the four criteria at 278.6(i) - and Criterion 2 turns entirely on what predates the flagged dates.
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.
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.