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Set $\inf \varnothing =\infty$. Since each $Y_j$ is ${\mathcal{F}}_j$-measurable, the eventis in ${\mathcal{F}}_n$, so ${\tau }_a$ is a stopping time. The stopped predictable budget for adapted increments is $A_n=a-U_{n\wedge {\tau }_a}$, for $n\ge 1$.

If ${\tau }_a=k<\infty$, the sum before the overshooting increment is $U_k={\sum }_{j<k}{Y}_j\le a$. If ${\tau }_a>n$, the sum through time $n$ is at most $a$, and in particular $U_n\le a$. ThusThe process is adapted, and boundedness gives integrability even when the increments have no finite expectations. Directly from the one-step-lagged sum,This decrement is ${\mathcal{F}}_n$-measurable, and $0\le Y_n{1}_{\{{\tau }_a>n\}}\le a$. ThereforeHence $A$ is a nonnegative supermartingale; in fact its paths are nonincreasing. At time zero one may set $U_0=0$ and $A_0=a$; then $A_1=a$ too. Stopping the sum including $Y_{{\tau }_a}$ would lose nonnegativity, which is why the shifted definition of $U$ matters.

Suppose $X_n\ge 0$ is integrable and adapted, and $Y_n\ge 0$ is finite and adapted. Use the stopped predictable budget for adapted increments with an integer budget $a$. The process $X_{n\wedge {\tau }_a}+a-U_{n\wedge {\tau }_a}$ is an integrable nonnegative supermartingale, because its budget decrement cancels the localized drift. It has a finite almost-sure limit. On the event that the total drift is smaller than $a$, the stopping time is infinite, so $X_n$ itself converges. Taking the countable union over integer budgets proves finite almost sure convergence. No expectation of the total drift is needed.