Evaluation of food retailer compliance management demonstrations in EBT-ready states and related initiatives

Presents the findings from the study's second task, a telephone survey of all states with State Law Enforcement Bureau (SLEB) agreements. SLEB agreements are the mechanisms by which USDA's Food and Consumer Service provides states with food stamp coupons to use in conducting investigations of the illegal selling, buying, and redemption of food stamp coupons in the underground economy. FCS wanted to determine what has been accomplished under the terms of the SLEB agreements, why there is broad variation among the states in their use of the agreements, and what can be done to improve the SLEB agreement process.