FSA Safeguards Protect U.S. from Fraud, Abuse

The Farm Service Agency has issued a final rule that will help eliminate waste and abuse of farm program payments. “With this final rule we are codifying improvements that have allowed the FSA to reduce the error rate in the percentage of payments from 2 percent to under 0.1 percent,” said FSA Administrator Jonathan Coppess. At issue in the past is payments sent to producers who have died. Although FSA is legally obligated to pay the estates of producers for a certain time period, additional safeguards were implemented to strengthen data reconciliation procedures to avoid unnecessary payments. Learn more.