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Deceased Farmers Got Government Subsidy Payments

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
July 28, 2007
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In a selection of 181 cases from 1999 to 2005, the Government Accountability Office found that officials approved government subsidy payments without any review 40 percent of the time. The report cited a 1,900-acre soybean and corn farm in Illinois that collected $400,000 on behalf of an owner who lived in Florida before his death in 1995. The company did not notify the government of the death but certified each year that the dead shareholder, who owned 40 percent of the company, was "actively engaged" in managing the farm.
An Indiana corporation that was owned entirely by one person never notified the government of the owner's death in 1993 and continued to collect unspecified payments for a decade before new owners filed for farm benefits. The government made $567,000 in payments to an Alabama estate over seven years on behalf of an owner who died in 1981. Another estate continued to receive unspecified payments on behalf of a person who died in 1973 -- more than three decades ago -- without any investigation or review.
The following is information from Environmental Working Group's concerning those that receive government subsidy payments, in Hardin County, Kentucky.
Hardin County, Kentucky Recipients:
• $31.7 million in subsidies 1995-2005.
• Kentucky ranking: 24 of 50
• Top Recipients 1995-2005
• Top Recipients in 2005