Why was my SNAP application denied?
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.
Denial letters are short and formulaic, which leads owners to assume there’s nothing to answer. There almost always is, and the response window behaves like a sanction deadline.
Staple stock
Authorization criteria look for depth and variety of staple foods, including perishables, assessed on a single visit. A delivery that had not landed or a cooler being repaired can produce a finding that doesn’t describe the store. Answer it with dated shelf photographs organized by category and food-only wholesale invoices from the surrounding weeks.
Integrity and prior sanctions
FNS screens owners and officers for convictions, civil judgments, unpaid federal debt and prior program sanctions. Where a principal was connected to a disqualified firm, the application inherits that history - which is why family restructurings after a sanction so reliably fail. This ground is answered with ownership and control documents, precisely.
Don’t simply reapply
Reapplying without curing the stated ground usually produces the same answer, and a second denial is harder to unwind than the first. Where the ground is factually wrong, contest it with evidence now. Where it’s real, fix it, document the fix, then file.
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.