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Exhibit 655

Farm Programs: Changes Are Needed to Eligibility Requirements for Being Actively Involved in Farming (GAO-13-781)

Exhibit 655 · GAO report

Farm Programs: Changes Are Needed to Eligibility Requirements for Being Actively Involved in Farming (GAO-13-781)

FSA regulations allow farming operation members to make contributions of management without visiting the operation

FSA compliance reviews are hindered by a broad and subjective definition of active personal management, which can be met by performing one of eight services. FSA completed on time about 24 percent of its 2009 reviews and 14 percent of its 2010 reviews. FSA said it would not change the definition without direction from Congress and concurred with the recommendation to monitor reviews.

Source
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Date
September 2013
Quoted from
Highlights, p. 2 of PDF
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-13-781.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding AGR-3.7
Primary record Crop insurance premium subsidies and indemnities have no payment limit and sit outside the actively engaged in farming test. For the programs that apply the test, GAO reported in 2004, 2013 and 2020 that the management standard is broad and that FSA’s compliance reviews were late or not monitored.