Posted by GeneMO on September 03, 2008 at 16:00:20 from (216.74.198.226):
In Reply to: Crop insurance farming posted by Dave from MN on September 03, 2008 at 04:55:34:
I have been involved in crop insurance since 1981. First as an adjuster, then a quality control/trainer for the old Federal Crop Insurance. I have set in on many of the meetings then, and recently that address a lot of these issues.
First of all, If you suspect crop insurance abuse, call the fraud hotline at 1-800-424-9121 or check into the Risk Management Agency at www.rma.usda.gov
About 6 years ago RMA, at the request of congress implemented an agressive program designed to root out any "Fraud, Waste and Abuse" Man I got tired of hearing that term!
Anyway, with a very sophisticated set of computers, and computer models, software, etc. They began several types of monitoring. They do "Data mining", "Data reconsiliation" and a couple of other things hard to explain without charts and powerpoints.
The data mining cross references data from FSA, Crop insurance, and other sources and can match high loss farmers, with agents and adjusters that also work with high dollar loss policies. It also pulls out straggler losses, like a prevented planting claim in a county, but its the only one. Lots of other things they look at.
The Governments RMA web site has several stories each month of where a farmer, his realatives, his agent and adjuster have been fined, or in some cases put in the can.
It's not perfect, but you can step up and help by calling the hotline.
You could also tip off you county CED at the FSA office.
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