Information Collection Request; Application for Payment of Amounts Due Persons Who Have Died, Disappeared, or Have Been Declared Incompetent
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This law allows representatives or survivors of a producer who has died, disappeared, or is declared incompetent, to claim payments earned but not disbursed to them. Those individuals must fill out a specific form showing their relation to the deceased or incapable producer. The USDA's Farm Service Agency uses this data to verify claims and distribute payments appropriately.
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Key Changes
- Extension of an existing information collection without changes
- Allows claims for payments by representatives of deceased, disappeared, or incompetent individuals
- Validation of claims via a specific form (FSA-325) submitted to the Farm Service Agency
Obligations
What this law requires
Representatives or survivors of a deceased, disappeared, or incompetent producer must complete and submit form FSA-325 (Application for Payment of Amounts Due Persons Who Have Died, Disappeared, or Have Been Declared Incompetent) to claim earned but unpaid payments.
Claimants must document their relationship to the deceased, disappeared, or incompetent producer on form FSA-325.
FSA county office employees must use the information collected on form FSA-325 to verify the relationship of heirs, beneficiaries, or other claimants to the producer.
FSA must determine the share and order of precedence for disbursing payments to entitled individuals based on information provided in form FSA-325.
The Commodity Credit Corporation and Farm Service Agency must accept public comments on this information collection through the Federal eRulemaking Portal (regulations.gov) with Docket ID FSA-2026-0232 until June 15, 2026.