Exhibit 656

Farm Programs: USDA Has Improved Its Completion of Eligibility Compliance Reviews, but Additional Oversight Is Needed (GAO-21-95)

Exhibit 656 · GAO report

Farm Programs: USDA Has Improved Its Completion of Eligibility Compliance Reviews, but Additional Oversight Is Needed (GAO-21-95)

USDA did not systematically monitor its performance of compliance reviews

FSA improved completion of 2015 and 2016 compliance reviews but did not systematically monitor them. Of 27 review records examined, six included interviews. Payments that required recipients to be actively engaged in farming totaled $8.4 billion, $7.4 billion and $3.1 billion for crop years 2015 to 2017. USDA generally agreed with five recommendations.

Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Date: October 2020
Quoted from: Highlights, p. 2 of PDF
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.gao.gov/assets/720/710495.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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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.