PRESCRIPTION FOR PERIL: How Insurance Fraud Finances Theft and Abuse of Addictive Prescription Drugs
Congress established a standing disaster program in the 2008 farm bill—
the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program. Under this
program, Congress funded a $3.8 billion permanent trust fund and
directed the Secretary of Agriculture to make crop disaster assistance
payments to eligible farmers who suffer crop losses on or before
September 30, 2011. USDA—through FSA—began making disaster
payments under this program in early 2010 for crop losses incurred in
2008. To qualify for a disaster assistance payment under this program, a
farmer must have purchased either federal crop insurance coverage or be
covered under the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program for...