FSA will multiply that amount by the percentage of the expected disaster year revenue for specialty and high value crops or other crops, as applicable, to determine the amounts that will apply to the payment limitations for specialty and high value crops combined and other crops.

FSA will apply a final payment factor of 75 percent to all calculated Track 2 payments, including payments to underserved producers, to ensure payments do not exceed available funding.

To determine allowable gross revenue, see the table on the ERP Track 2 fact sheet. Since separate payment limitations apply to payments for specialty and high value crops and other crops, for both the Tax Year Option and the Expected Revenue Option, producers must certify to the percentage of their disaster year revenue that they expected to receive from specialty and high value crops and the percentage from other crops.

The percentages must be based on what the producer would have reasonably expected to receive for each category in the disaster year if the qualifying disaster event had not occurred.

The first phase of ERP assistance will provide payments to producers who were impacted by wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, winter storms, and other eligible disasters experienced during calendar years and using existing Federal Crop Insurance or Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program NAP data already submitted to FSA.

Producers who are eligible for assistance through ERP Phase One have until Friday, Dec. Going forward, if any additional ERP Phase One prefilled applications are generated due to corrections or other circumstances, there will be a day deadline from the date of notification for that particular application.

Fact Sheet. ERP covers losses to crops, trees, bushes and vines due to a qualifying natural disaster event in calendar years and Eligible crops include all crops for which federal crop insurance or NAP coverage was available except for crops intended for grazing.

Qualifying natural disaster events include wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze including a polar vortex , smoke exposure, excessive moisture, qualifying drought, and related conditions.

They include:. For drought, ERP assistance is available if any area within the county in which the loss occurred was rated by the U. Drought Monitor as having a D2 severe drought for eight consecutive weeks or D3 extreme drought or higher level of drought intensity.

For ERP Phase 1, FSA will send pre-filled application forms to producers whose crop insurance and NAP data is already on file because they received a crop insurance indemnity or NAP payment. This form includes eligibility requirements, outlines the application process, and provides ERP payment information.

Producers will receive a separate application form for each program year. Receipt of a pre- filled application is not confirmation that a producer is eligible to receive an ERP Phase 1 payment. Most producers, especially those who have previously participated in FSA programs will likely have these required forms on file.

However, those who are uncertain or want to confirm should contact their local FSA county office. In addition to the forms listed above, certain producers will also need to submit the following forms to qualify for an increased payment rate or payment limitation.

For crops covered by crop insurance, the ERP Phase 1 payment calculation for a crop and unit will depend on the type and level of coverage obtained by the producer. FSA will mail application forms for policy holders with crop year coverage under Stacked Income Protection STAX , Supplemental Coverage Option SCO , Enhanced Coverage Option ECO , Margin Protection MP , and Area Risk Protection Insurance ARPI when data becomes available.

To learn more, visit the Payment Eligibility and Payment Limitations fact sheet. Requirement to Purchase Crop Insurance or NAP Coverage All producers who receive ERP Phase 1 payments must purchase crop insurance, or NAP coverage where crop insurance is not available, in the next two available crop years as determined by the Secretary.

ERP Phase 2 is a tax year based certification program that provides assistance for producers who suffered a loss in revenue due to necessary expenses associated with losses of eligible crops excluding crops intended for grazing , due in whole or in part, to a qualifying disaster event that occurred in the or calendar year.

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Requirement to Purchase Crop Insurance or NAP Coverage All producers who receive ERP Phase 2 payments must purchase crop insurance, or NAP coverage where crop insurance is not available, in the next two available crop years as determined by the Secretary. ELRP provided assistance to livestock producers for losses incurred due to drought or wildfire in calendar year ELRP Factsheet.

ELRP assistance provided payments to producers who faced increased supplemental feed costs as a result of forage losses due to a qualifying drought or wildfire in calendar year using data already submitted to FSA though the Livestock Forage Disaster Program LFP.

Assistance for on-farm stored commodities is provided through ERP Phase Two for and losses. The Milk Loss Program allows eligible dairy operations to receive payments for milk that was dumped or removed without compensation from the commercial milk market due to qualifying weather events that inhibited the delivery of milk or the storage of milk due to disaster events for the , and calendar years.

Milk Loss Program Fact Sheet. MLP compensates dairy operations for milk that was dumped or removed, without compensation, from the commercial milk market due to qualifying weather events and the consequences of those weather events that inhibited delivery or storage of milk e.

during calendar years , and Qualifying disaster events include droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze including a polar vortex and smoke exposure that occurred in the , and calendar years. Tornadoes are considered a qualifying disaster event for calendar year only.

The milk loss claim period is each calendar month that milk was dumped or removed from the commercial market. Each MLP application covers the loss in a single calendar month. Milk loss that occurs in more than one calendar month due to the same qualifying weather event requires a separate application for each month.

The days that are eligible for assistance begin on the date the milk was removed or dumped and for concurrent days milk was removed or dumped. Once the dairy operation restarts milk marketing, the dairy operation is ineligible for assistance unless after restarting commercial milk marketing, additional milk is dumped due to the same qualifying disaster event.

The duration of yearly claims is limited to 30 days per year for , and If not previously filed with FSA, applicants must also submit all the following items within 60 days of the MLP application deadline:.

The final MLP payment is determined by factoring the MLP payment calculation by the applicable MLP payment percentage. The calculation for determining MLP payment is:. For MLP payment calculations, the milk loss base period is the first full month of production before the dumping or removal occurred.

To qualify for the higher payment percentage, eligible producers must have a CCC, Socially Disadvantaged, Limited Resource, Beginning and Veteran Farmer or Rancher Certification, form on file with FSA for the applicable program year.

Attribution of payments apply to MLP and payments to a legal entity are tracked through four levels of ownership, attributed, and limited to persons or legal entities that hold an ownership interest in the legal entity.

For more information, see the Direct Attribution information on the Payment Limitations web page. What's Next? These changes will take effect for disasters declared on or after March 22, Our disaster assistance partners can provide help with immediate needs FEMA is not authorized to provide.

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No, you are not eligible for ELRP Phase 1. Only LFP participants are eligible, however, counties who fall under this drought criteria are identified may be considered eligible under future additional emergency assistance under ELRP.

Do I need to contact my local FSA County Office to sign up for ELRP Phase 1? No, if you completed a LFP application your LFP gross calculated payment amount will be used to calculate your ELRP Phase 1 payment.

Direct contact to your county office is not required to receive a payment. I completed a LFP application, however i was ineligible for payment due to AGI non-compliance, am i eligible for ELRP Phase 1? Yes, ELRP is not subject to AGI provisions. Your LFP gross payment calculated amount will be used to calculate your ELRP Phase 1 payment.

I completed a LFP application however the COC reduced some of the acreage on my application because I did not have a lease for those acres. Will I be eligible for ELRP Phase 1. Yes, if you received a LFP payment then you will receive a ELRP Phase 1 payment based on your gross LFP payment calculation.

I completed a LFP application however the COC disapproved the application. Will I be eligible for ELRP Phase 1? If your LFP application was disapproved, then you will not receive an ELRP payment under Phase 1.

We completed a LFP application and were paid, however one of the members of our operation did not met AGI provisions and the payment was reduced by their share of the operation. Will we receive the whole ELRP Phase 1 payment or only part of the ELRP Phase 1 payment like we did for LFP?

ELRP is not subject to AGI provisions. Your LFP gross calculated payment amount will be used to calculate your ELRP Phase 1 payment. My county was eligible for LFP but I was not aware of the LFP program so I did not sign up.

Can I still apply for ELRP? There is no application period for ELRP Phase 1. ELRP is being administered in a phased approach, so If you did not complete a LFP application, you will need to contact your local FSA office to ensure you are aware of all FSA programs and subsequent announcements of ELRP.

I completed a LFP application in the summer of and was paid. I later sold all my livestock. Will I still receive a ELRP Phase 1 payment? Yes, if you received a LFP payment then you will receive an ELRP Phase 1 payment.

The two-phased process allows FSA to continue to evaluate and identify the impacts of and natural disasters on diversified, row crop and specialty crop operations and expedite distribution of much-needed emergency relief program benefits.

Phase 1 was implemented to expedite assistance to producers with crop insurance and NAP coverage by using existing Risk Management Agency RMA and FSA claim data. Phase 2 will compensate eligible producers not paid under Phase 1 for their eligible losses, including those that may have had crop insurance or NAP, but the loss was not large enough to trigger an indemnity and address any other gaps or areas impacted by the and natural disasters.

ERP Phase 1 will use a streamlined process with pre-filled application forms and provide payments for crop production losses and tree, bush, and vine losses in certain situations where the claim data is already on file with FSA or the RMA, as a result of the producer previously receiving a Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program NAP payment or a crop insurance indemnity under certain crop insurance policies.

ERP Phase 2 will be for all eligible producers that experienced an eligible loss that did not receive a payment under Phase 1. This includes shallow losses, uninsured crops, and quality losses not accounted for in Phase 1.

Producers who apply for payment under ERP Phase 1 may also apply under ERP Phase 2; however, payments under ERP Phase 2 will take into account any amounts received for the crop and unit under ERP Phase 1.

ERP Phase 2 provisions will be specified in a future announcement. If I received a letter for Phase 1, am I automatically eligible for a disaster payment? No, before an ERP payment can be made producers are responsible for confirming and certifying that the indemnities shown on the letter are a result of a qualifying disaster event.

Qualifying disaster events include wildfires, hurricanes including related excessive wind, storm surges, tornado, tropical storms, and tropical depression , floods including related silt and debris , derechos including related excessive wind , excessive heat, winter storms including related blizzard and excessive wind , freeze including a polar vortex , smoke exposure, excessive moisture, and qualifying drought occurring in calendar years and Related conditions must have occurred as a direct result of the indicated disaster event.

Drought Monitor as having a D2 severe drought for eight consecutive weeks or a D3 extreme drought or higher level at any point during the applicable calendar year.

Pre-filled applications for ERP Phase 1 will be mailed in late May We will share the exact date online here on the Emergency Relief webpage once the date is confirmed. Producers wanting to receive payment under Phase 1 need to submit the application to an FSA county office.

Applications can be accepted by fax, email, or submitted in person, to an FSA County Office. All producers certifying to a share on the ERP application must sign the application to receive a payment.

What if I am the primary crop insurance policy holder with other Substantial Beneficial Interest SBI listed on my application and have designated SBI shares, but am not able to collect all SBI signatures on my ERP application? Contact your crop insurance agent for questions regarding crop insurance information.

Contact your FSA office for questions regarding NAP information. What eligibility forms must be submitted to the FSA County Office prior to receiving an ERP payment? Eligibility forms include the AD Customer Data Worksheet if applicable , the CCC Farm Operating Plan for Payment Eligibility, the CCC Member Information for Legal Entities if applicable , and the AD Highly Erodible Land Conservation HELC and Wetland Conservation WC Certification.

Many producers, especially if they have participated in FSA programs recently, will already have these forms on file with FSA. Producers who are unsure of whether a form is on file may contact their local FSA service center.

FSA will continue to accept forms CCC and FSA from producers for the purpose of establishing eligibility for an increased payment rate or payment limitation until the deadline. How do I know if the indemnity received was due in whole or in part by a qualifying disaster event?

For crop insurance, contact your crop insurance agent to verify the disaster event that affected your crop. For NAP crops, contact your FSA office to verify the disaster event that affected your crop.

Also, for drought related events, the drought index link can be used to help consider eligibility. I had crop insurance and had a loss on a crop that has not been paid yet, am I still eligible for Phase 1?

The data used to populate the initial Phase 1 letter included claim data on file with RMA as of May 2, Am I still eligible for Phase 1? If you did not have coverage under SCO, ECO, STAX, MP, or ARPI, contact your crop insurance agent to ensure your claim information was submitted to RMA by your approved insurance provider.

Only producers who received an indemnity as determined by RMA under certain crop insurance policies or a a payment for NAP received an application for Phase 1. When will I receive my payment after I have submitted my complete ERP application? The ERP payment will be processed after all eligibility forms have been received and the FSA representative has signed and certified the payment.

When will I receive my ERP application? Pre-filled application forms for NAP producers will be mailed late summer FSA will continue accepting applications until the deadline is announced at a future date. Am I required to purchase crop insurance or NAP in the future if I receive an ERP payment? Yes, any applicant that receives an ERP payment must agree to purchase crop insurance or NAP, as applicable, for the next 2 available crop years, as determined by the Secretary.

The final crop year to purchase crop insurance or NAP coverage to meet the second year of coverage for this requirement is the crop year.

I no longer farm; do I still need to agree to purchase crop insurance or obtain NAP coverage on the ERP application? Yes, all participants must agree to purchase coverage in order to receive an ERP payment.

However, producers who were paid under ERP Phase 1 for a crop in a county, but do not plant that crop in that county in a year for which this requirement applies, are not subject to the crop insurance or NAP purchase requirement for that year.

If I received an ELAP payment for aquaculture, will I receive an ERP Phase 1 payment? ERP Phase 1 will not include losses to aquacultural species that were compensated under the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-raised Fish Program generally referred to as ELAP.

What if I am the primary crop insurance policy holder with other Substantial Beneficial Interests SBI listed on my application and I have designated SBI shares, but am not able to collect all SBI signatures on my ERP application?

Only producers who received an indemnity as determined by RMA under certain crop insurance policies or a payment for NAP received an application for Phase 1. What if I lost my ERP application or did not receive my ERP application in the mail? ERP Phase 1 is only including those quality conditions as recognized under the insurance policy and does not include possible further adjustments.

Further adjustments for quality beyond what is covered under the insurance policy will be covered under Phase 2. Can my crop insurance agent tell me if I experienced a qualifying disaster event?

Your crop insurance agent should be able to provide you information regarding your crop insurance claim and any documentation supporting that claim. For many, this documentation may directly relate to a qualifying disaster event under ERP. However, your crop insurance claim documentation by itself does not disqualify you from being eligible under ERP as it may not capture or document all qualifying disaster events impacting your production.

You as the producer are responsible for certifying to a portion of your loss being attributed to a qualifying disaster event. Producers will get credit for the higher of their Margin Protection coverage level and underlying policy e.

Producers with a standalone Margin Protection policy are not included in Phase 1. The FSA unharvested factors do not apply to crop insurance policies under Phase 1 as the crop insurance terms are generally followed. Prevented planting carries through and is recalculated at the ERP factor provided the damage date was or and it was reported.

No, Pasture, Rangeland, Forage PRF grazing and Annual Forage AF acreage associated with grazing are not eligible under ERP.

Grazing losses are considered feed losses, not crop production losses, which makes them ineligible to be paid by ERP. However, if part of their losses were associated with anything other than grazing, then they are eligible.

I received an application, but my insurance claim was not for one of the qualifying events. Do I need to have the claim corrected in order to receive my ERP payment?

No, if your crop insurance payment was associated with one of the qualifying events you may still be eligible to receive a payment. You are eligible for payment on any crop and unit that suffered a loss in whole or in part due to a qualifying event. Are all counties eligible for payment even if they are not listed on the eligible drought list?

The exception is that if a producer is certifying to drought as the qualifying disaster event, the county must have been in a drought rated by the U. If a producer is certifying to any other qualifying disaster event, all counties are eligible. If I my county did not qualify for drought based on the U.

Drought Monitor am I automatically ineligible for ERP? Not necessarily, producers should review all qualifying events such as excessive heat and related conditions.

Producers that certify they had a qualifying event should be prepared to provide documentation that can substantiate their self-certification if they are reviewed during a spot check. Replanting payments are not eligible for ERP.

Replanting payments paid to a producer are not included in the ERP payment calculation. If a prevented planting claim in is tied back to floods, should it come through in Phase 1. Qualifying disaster events must have occurred in Calendar Years or If the date of the loss is not in an eligible calendar year, the crop is not included in Phase 1.

Producers may apply under Phase 2 if they believe they had a qualifying disaster event in one of the eligible calendar years. Will I be covered in phase 2? Phase 2 will compensate eligible producers not paid under Phase 1 for their eligible losses, including those that may have had crop insurance or NAP, but the loss was not large enough to trigger an indemnity and address any other gaps or areas impacted by the and qualifying natural disasters.

My application has an SBI listed with zero percent interest. Does this SBI have to sign to complete the application? How are joint ventures JV and general partnerships and other entity information separated?

Primary policyholders that have matching records at FSA are listed as the applicant on the FSA and the ERP payment is calculated based on the RMA share. Did USDA reduce production when the harvest price is less than the projected price?

In the previous WHIP versions, FSA did not account for price drops, so does that carry over to ERP? ERP values production to count at the harvest price for Revenue Protection and Revenue Protection with the Harvest Price Exclusion.

Why is my estimated ERP payment greater than the indemnity amount I received through crop insurance? ERP is not a top-up program and instead covers a portion of your crop insurance deductible.

Indemnities that were previously paid to the producer are reduced by producer-paid premiums and fees before being subtracted from the payment amount. Not necessarily. Item 11 on the FSA reflects the calculated ERP benefit prior to any reductions, so it is the calculated payment based on the formula without any adjustments.

Lastly the 75 percent payment factor will apply, but additional payments may be provided if funds are available after ERP Phase 2. If there is an error in my application, what is the process for correction?

If the error is corrected, will I still receive a Phase 1 payment? Discrepancies in cause of loss dates that cause a crop to not appear will be handled in Phase 2. For other potential errors, the producer should contact their crop insurance agent or FSA county office. I received a crop insurance indemnity in and but did not receive an application?

What should I do? Please visit your FSA office, and they will print a new application if the original was lost or undelivered.

For FSA to process an application for a deceased producer, it must first be signed by an authorized signatory. An alternate payee may utilize an FSA where the payment will be issued using the Tax ID Number of the deceased and a will be issued in the same manner.

What should I do if I have an informal joint venture that uses my Tax ID Number for the entity, but none of the members of the entity appear as SBIs on the FSA? The producer also has the option of waiting for Phase 2 if they believe that there may be additional benefits, such as the historically underserved payment factor, available to individual members of the entity.

However, there is risk associated with waiting until Phase 2 since there may be different eligibility criteria or payment factors applied to Phase 2 payments. Due to how Transfer of Coverage data is stored, FSA treats transferees like an SBI on the FSA While the ERP application will be mailed to the original primary policyholder, the transferee will be listed as an SBI on the application.

ERP Phase 1 is limited to the data included on the prefilled application. Phase 1 does not provide an option to update, revise, or change data except to identify shares for the primary policy holder and producers identified as an SBI on the application.

There are no appeal rights for Phase 1 because there is no approval or disapproval of the application, only processing by FSA. If a producer completes the application and all signatures are provided for producers with a share in the crop s , the application is considered complete and is processed.

Yes, if hail was directly related to a qualifying disaster event. I understand that my cause of loss indicated for crop insurance does not have to match the qualifying disaster event exactly and that I will need to certify that I did in fact have a loss due to a qualifying disaster event and will need to be able substantiate that if I am spot checked.

What kind of documentation will I need in such a review? Participants are required to retain documentation in support of their ERP application for 3 years after the date of approval.

All information provided to FSA for program eligibility and payment calculation purposes, including certification that a producer suffered a loss due to a qualifying disaster event is subject to spot check.

FSA County Committees COC will facilitate spot-checks and consider local farming practices, weather conditions, and disaster events. As part of this process, the COC may request additional weather data or documentation to support the claimed losses.

My crop year prevented planting claim was reported by the AIP to RMA with a cause of loss date in calendar year even though I was also impacted by a qualifying disaster event in I did not receive an ERP application because of this so what can I do to resolve the issue?

FSA is working closely with RMA to identify these and other similar situations so that ERP Phase 1 applications can automatically be generated in late summer I recently received an ERP application but blocks 14 and 15 are missing the producer response box.

What can I do to get my application submitted and processed? USDA is aware of this issue. You have two options to ensure your application is processed. If I received a letter for my crop year wheat losses, am I automatically eligible for a disaster payment?

No, before an ERP payment can be made producers are responsible for certifying that the indemnities shown on the letter are a result of a qualifying disaster event. Drought Monitor as having a D2 severe drought for eight consecutive weeks or a D3 extreme drought or higher level at any point during the calendar years and Disaster events, including drought, occurring in calendar year are not qualifying events.

What are the linkage requirements for land that is newly considered high- risk? Linkage is tied to the crop and county that received the ERP payment. Producers who received an ERP payment on acreage classified as standard will have to meet the minimum 60 percent coverage requirement on all acreage classified as standard.

Producers who received an ERP payment on high-risk acreage will have to meet the requirement on all acreage classified as high-risk. What supporting documentation should I gather in anticipation of applying for ERP Phase 2?

ERP Phase 2 is a certification-based program, producers can begin reviewing Schedule F Form ; and Profit or Loss from Farming or similar tax documents for tax years , representing their applicable Benchmark Year and Tax Year for Disaster Year Revenue.

What is the difference between ERP Phase 2 and PARP? Is there a side-by-side tool to help me decide which program is best for me? There is! A side-by-side comparison fact sheet was created to help you navigate both programs and determine eligibility, it is available here.

How will digital signatures be obtained if the producer does not have the means or proper equipment to complete an application electronically? Digital in-person signatures will be obtained in the county office electronically.

The producer is not required to purchase or obtain any special electronic device. Crops grown for on farm use such as forage fed to livestock have no sales resulting into revenue.

However, there could be revenue that would still be considered allowable gross revenue as defined in the table located on the back of the FSA form. What if a producer had losses in those years, can they request an adjusted benchmark in that instance?

No, Benchmark Year Revenue cannot be adjusted for producer losses. However, it may be adjusted by a producer if either of the following apply:. Producers are required to adjust allowable gross revenue for the Benchmark Year if there was a decrease in operation capacity in a disaster year as compared to the or Benchmark Year.

If a producer qualified as a beginning farmer in or , but that expired in — will they still get the increased payment rate? Yes, Program Year Disaster Year reads the associated subsidiary file from or ERP Phase 2 has two program years, and Payment limitations for ERP are follows:.

Revenue is based on tax year and is specific to each applicant. The revenue would go with the applicable tax year the applicant would have reported for tax purposes. Specifically, deferred revenue and proceeds from crop insurance will be considered "allowable revenue" for ERP Phase 2 purposes in the tax year in which the revenue or crop insurance proceeds are reported to the IRS by the taxpayer.

FSA cannot provide casual advice for how income could or should have been reported. The FSA table contains what is considered allowable gross revenue. Is there a tool to assist producers or accountants in determining Allowable Gross Revenue? Producers may use the FSAA worksheet or the ERP Excel tool to determine Allowable Gross Revenue.

There is no minimum threshold change. Producer is required to decrease the benchmark revenue and they may increase the benchmark. Yes, once the rule is published resources will be provided in multiple languages.

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