Scandalous

From the Global Subsidies Initiative:

The United States Government Accountability Office (GOA) has found that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is paying millions of dollars in farms subsidies to thousands of deceased individuals. ...

“The USDA ... does not have the management controls to verify that it is not making payments to deceased individuals.” ...

[D]uring the 1999-2005 period, some $1.1 billion in farms subsidies were paid in the names of 172, 801 deceased individuals, some of whom had been dead for seven years or more. The USDA relies on the farm subsidy recipients to notify them of any changes, including a death, which may change an estates’ eligibility to receive subsidies.