Showing posts with label Farm Subsidies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farm Subsidies. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Dead Farmers Collect Cold Cash

So nothing's certain but death and taxes? Looks like you can keep collecting money from the taxpayers -- after you're dead.

An audit of the Agriculture Department's books finds Uncle Sam paid $1.1 billion in farm subsidies to farmers after they'd been planted in the ground.

The Government Accountability Office looked at payments from 1999 to 2005. The GAO found 40% of the payments went to farmers who'd been dead for more than three years -- 19% to farmers who'd been dead for seven or more years. (AP)