The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program moves roughly $113 billion in benefits across 42 million Americans every year. Trafficking, skimming, and ineligible-item fraud are bleeding the program at every layer. JIL Sovereign attests every EBT transaction against retailer authorization, basket eligibility, and trafficking-pattern signals before settlement, and produces a Court Ready Evidence Bundle anchored on CourtChain for retailer disqualification, skimming reimbursement, and OIG referral.
One vertical. Lead use case is SNAP. Substrate extends to WIC, school nutrition, and child nutrition programs across the USDA Food and Nutrition Service portfolio without architectural change.
Nutrition Assistance Integrity is built SNAP-first because that is where the rule set is statutorily clearest, the trafficking economics are most well-documented, and the EBT rail is most concentrated. The same Verdict Engine, the same CREB output, and the same Sovereign Compliance Network seal extend to three adjacent USDA FNS-administered nutrition programs without re-architecture.
Food and Nutrition Act benefits delivered via EBT. Retailer authorization, basket eligibility, and trafficking detection. Annual flow ≈ $113B across 258K authorized retailers.
Authorized Product List enforcement at the cash register. State-issued APL files map directly into the same UPC eligibility check. Voucher and eWIC card-based flows both supported.
National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program. Eligibility certification audit, meal claim attestation, Community Eligibility Provision verification, and Direct Certification cross-match against SNAP and Medicaid rolls at the district level.
Summer Food Service Program and Child and Adult Care Food Program. Sponsor and site eligibility attestation, meal count integrity, and reimbursement claim verification. Same Verdict Engine, FNS-administered, single regulator surface.
Nutrition Assistance Integrity does not require a new platform. It is a new profile inside the existing Verdict Engine, with SNAP-specific checks bound to the same 14-of-20 SCN consensus, the same CourtChain anchoring, and the same Sealed Escrow disposition path used across all six product pillars.
Twenty-eight SNAP-specific attestation checks bound to a named policy profile: retailer authorization status, basket UPC eligibility, hot-prepared exclusion, alcohol and tobacco exclusion, trafficking-pattern scoring (round-dollar density, manual-entry ratio, velocity, geographic clustering), cardholder balance sufficiency, and skimming signal correlation. Each check is versioned and binds to a statutory citation.
Every flagged transaction produces a Court Ready Evidence Bundle anchored on CourtChain L1, sealed by 14-of-20 SCN validator signatures, retained for 15+ years. Designed to survive FNS retailer disqualification administrative review under 7 CFR 278.6 and 278.8, and to support OIG criminal referral packages without further forensic work.
Transactions that pass all checks receive a Proof of Compliance State receipt. The state agency or EBT processor retains a verifiable receipt for every cleared transaction, anchored on chain, available for audit and for response to USDA FNS Quality Control reviews. Audit defense is a byproduct of the rail, not a separate workstream.
Disputed or held transactions never enter JIL custody. Funds remain under state agency or processor control with a cryptographic seal binding the disposition decision to the underlying CREB. The state controls release, hold, or recovery. JIL provides the proof; the agency provides the decision and the action.
These are the recurring fraud patterns in the federal SNAP loss profile, mapped to the specific attestation checks that produce a Court Ready Evidence Bundle when the pattern fires. Each pattern has named statutory anchors and a documented evidence chain.
Customers select between a retrospective forensic engagement (no integration, fastest signal) and a pre-settlement integration pilot (full production path, requires processor cooperation). Both produce Court Ready Evidence Bundles. Both are flat-fee. Neither is contingency.
State EBT agency or USDA OIG provides 90 days to 4 years of historical EBT transaction data into a customer-side Snowpark Container or JIL Cloud enclave. JIL applies the SNAP profile across the entire data set. Output: one CREB per flagged transaction, plus retailer-level and cardholder-level aggregation reports for prioritized action.
Production integration with one EBT processor or one state EBT switch. ISO 8583 authorization stream replicated into the Verdict Engine. Sub-800ms verdict returned in-line for the pilot retailer cohort or pilot benefit category. Cleared transactions receive a PoCS receipt; disputed transactions land in Sealed Escrow under state custody.
SNAP integrity sits at the intersection of three buyer cohorts. Each has a distinct procurement path, contracting vehicle, and political surface. JIL Sovereign is positioned to enter through any of the three.
53 jurisdictions (50 states, DC, Guam, USVI). Primary buyer for skimming reimbursement, retailer disqualification support, and QC error rate reduction. Procurement via state RFP, GSA Schedule, or NASPO ValuePoint. Average contract cycle 6 to 12 months.
FNS owns retailer authorization and disqualification. OIG owns criminal trafficking referrals. Procurement via federal contract vehicles (GSA, SEWP V, OASIS+) or sole-source justification on patent grounds. Channel partner accelerates entry.
Conduent, FIS, Fidelity National, and a handful of state-specific processors handle nearly all EBT authorization volume. Direct B2B contracting, faster cycle (3 to 6 months), revenue-share or per-attestation pricing model.
Every CREB produced by the Nutrition Assistance Integrity profile carries the same anatomy as every other CREB across the JIL Sovereign platform: subject details, profile applied, vendor-approved data sources, per-check methodology and result, final verdict, Sovereign Compliance Network validator quorum signature, JIL L1 anchor, QR code for public verification, and 15+ year retention in the customer's Secure Document Vault.
SNAP integrity has been bleeding for decades because detection has lived after the fact, in audit and recovery cycles that arrive months or years late. Pre-Settlement attestation moves the proof to the rail, before the money settles. Schedule a briefing to walk a sample Court Ready Evidence Bundle for a SNAP trafficking pattern end-to-end. We respond inside one business day.