GAO: Dead farmers might be reaping millions in subsidies

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By Erik Wasson

The Agriculture Department might be sending millions of dollars in subsidies to dead farmers, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) said Monday.
The agency looked at crop insurance data from 2008 to 2012 and “found that $22 million in subsidies and allowances may have been provided on behalf of an estimated 3,434 program policyholders two or more years after death.”
The USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA), which subsidizes crop insurance, appears to have the biggest problem with making payments to people who are deceased, according to investigators.
The GAO found that the RMA “cannot be certain” the subsidies it distributes are proper because it does not compare policies to death records.
The data also suggests that environmental payments are going to the dead. Between 2008 and 2012, the GAO estimates $10.6 million went to 1,103 dead farmers. The National Resource Conservation Service is not reviewing its subsidies to check, the agency said.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/agriculture/314103-dead-farmers-may-be-reaping-millions-gao

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1. Lets stop all the checks this coming month....

if your living come and collect thats the easiest solution. Next lets prosecute to the max the morons that signed the checks.