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§1521 Ineligibility for catastrophic risk and noninsured assistance payments

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 36— - CROP INSURANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE › § 1521

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must deny all benefits for a crop year if someone knowingly used a scheme to get program benefits they weren't entitled to or evaded the program.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1521

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If the Secretary determines that a person has knowingly adopted a material scheme or device to obtain catastrophic risk, additional coverage, or noninsured assistance benefits under this subchapter to which the person is not entitled, has evaded this subchapter, or has acted with the purposes of evading this subchapter, the person shall be ineligible to receive all benefits applicable to the crop year for which the scheme or device was adopted.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

Amendments

to this section. The

Amendments

by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Amendments

2008—Pub. L. 110–246, §§ 12002(b)(2), 12033(c)(2)(B), substituted “this subchapter” for “this chapter” wherever appearing and struck out at end “The authority provided by this section shall be in addition to, and shall not supplant, the authority provided by section 1506(n) of this title.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 8701 of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 13, 1994, and applicable to provision of crop insurance under Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) beginning with 1995 crop year, with such Act, as in effect on the day before Oct. 13, 1994, to continue to apply with respect to 1994 crop year, see section 120 of Pub. L. 103–354, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1994 Amendment note under section 1502 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1521

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73