United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2005-09-30 monographic deposited born digital 96 p. GA 1.13:GAO-05-528 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-528 P0b002ee18037685b f:d05528 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-528 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-528 GAO-05-528 Agricultural policies Agricultural programs Disaster recovery Disaster relief aid Fraud Insurance Insurance claims Insurance losses Monitoring Natural disasters Program abuses Program evaluation Internal controls Risk management Questionable payments Investigations by federal agencies Federal Crop Insurance Program Other Written Product A38799 Federal crop insurance protects producers against losses from natural disasters. In 2004, the crop insurance program provided $47 billion in coverage, at a cost of $3.6 billion, including an estimated $160 million in losses from fraud and abuse. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) administers this program with private insurers. The Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA) provided new tools to monitor and control abuses, such as having USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) conduct field inspections. GAO assessed, among other things, the (1) effectiveness of USDA's processes to address program fraud and abuse and (2) extent to which the program's design makes it vulnerable to abuse. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-528/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-528.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-528/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-528.pdf GAO-05-528 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-528 Other Written Product GAO-05-528; Crop Insurance: Actions Needed to Reduce Program's Vulnerability to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse; Agricultural policies Agricultural programs Disaster recovery Disaster relief aid Fraud Insurance Insurance claims Insurance losses Monitoring Natural disasters Program abuses Program evaluation Internal controls Risk management Questionable payments Investigations by federal agencies Federal Crop Insurance Program Volume 116 Page 2350 116 Stat. 2350