What this attestation records
A hours-verified attestation is the load-bearing record for The Statement, the document a Medicaid recipient hands a caseworker to satisfy the community-engagement documentation requirement under HR-1 §71119. It states that a specific volunteer performed a specific number of hours at a specific organization during a specific period, and that a named authorized operator of the organization is affirming this.
The attestation is signed by an operator's passkey (e.g., Susan the ED). The operator's authority to bind the organization comes from a prior signing-delegation attestation signed by the org's root identity key. The full chain — operator signature → delegation → org root → onboarding-verification — is what a downstream verifier walks to establish that "Food Bank Downtown attests these hours" is a legally-defensible reading.
Signer and subject
Signer: the operator's passkey-derived Ed25519 public key.
Subject: the volunteer's public key.
Payload fields
hours— decimal number of qualifying hours performed during the reporting periodreporting_period— start and end dates the hours were performed withinactivity_description— human-readable description of the work (may be aggregated from underlying attendance/contribution attestations)org_root_pubkey— pubkey of the org's root identity (traces the delegation chain)delegation_attestation_reference— SHA-256 of the delegation attestation's canonical bytes that authorizes this operatoroperator_legal_name,operator_title— Neptune §3.1 REQUIRED: the operator's full legal name and title, in every hour-attestation payloadconfirmed_at— timestamp when the operator confirmed the attestation via the Extol UIteos_status_snapshot— reference to the TEOS lookup that was current at signing time, satisfying the signing-time TEOS gate
Notary Spec provenance
source_type:8(coordinator_confirmed) — operator confirmed via Extol UIwitnessing_depth:3(ui_confirmed)attestor_relationship:6(institution) — the signature legally attaches to the org, per SPEC §9.4confidence:9500— high; underlying evidence (attendance records, contribution attestations) is aggregated within Extol before operator confirmation
Signature block rendering
Statement PDFs generated from this attestation MUST render the signature block as: "Signed by [Organization Name], executed by [Operator Legal Name], [Operator Title]". Never "Signed by [Operator Legal Name] on behalf of [Organization]." Per Neptune §3.3, the distinction is legally load-bearing — the former matches paper-world convention for organizational signatures, the latter reads as a personal act with an assignment claim.
Related
- hours-disputed — the volunteer contests a claim about their hours
- hours-corrected — the operator supersedes an earlier hours-verified attestation with a corrected version