Healthy Poultry Assistance and Indemnification Act of 2025

Payments for poultry farms in control areas

If enacted, owners of poultry growing or laying facilities in a control area set by USDA’s animal health agency (APHIS) could request payments for flocks they could not produce. The payment would equal your facility’s average income from its last five flocks, multiplied by the number of flocks blocked. It would be reduced by any money you already got from a State or other source for those flocks, and no payment would be made if you already received federal pay for destroyed birds at the same facility during the same period. USDA would pay within 60 days after you submit your request, and the Secretary’s amount decision would be final except for review by the Secretary or a designee. Covered poultry would include chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, and game birds, but not doves or pigeons. Other existing exceptions in law would also apply.