Agriculture & Food

Information Collection Request; Application for Payment of Amounts Due Persons Who Have Died, Disappeared, or Have Been Declared Incompetent

🇺🇸United States··Notice·Low Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

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

high

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.

Representatives and survivors of deceased, disappeared, or incompetent producers
reporting
high

Claimants must document their relationship to the deceased, disappeared, or incompetent producer on form FSA-325.

Representatives and survivors claiming payments
disclosure
high

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.

USDA Farm Service Agency county office employees
operational
high

FSA must determine the share and order of precedence for disbursing payments to entitled individuals based on information provided in form FSA-325.

USDA Farm Service Agency
operational
medium

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.

Commodity Credit Corporation and Farm Service Agency
operational

Affected Parties

Representatives of deceased producersBeneficiaries claiming payments

Tags

information_collection,farm_service,payment_claims