Exhibit 654 · GAO report
Farm Program Payments: USDA Needs to Strengthen Regulations and Oversight to Better Ensure Recipients Do Not Circumvent Payment Limitations (GAO-04-407)
about 99 percent of payment recipients asserted they met eligibility requirements through active personal management
USDA's rules set no measurable standard for a significant contribution of active personal management. Of $17 billion in 2001 payments, $5.9 billion went to about 140,000 entities, and general partnerships received 45 percent of entity payments. For about one-half of operations reviewed, field offices did not use available tools to check active engagement. USDA agreed to act on most recommendations and said its regulations were sufficient for determining active engagement.
- Source
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Date
- April 2004
- Quoted from
- Highlights, p. 2 of PDF
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-04-407.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit