Assistance program
Indemnity Program
$1.6 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments With Unrestricted Use
- CFDA number
- 10.030
- What it does
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service administers regulations at 9 CFR parts 50 to 56 that authorizes payment for indemnities. This authority covers a wide variety of indemnity situations ranging from large livestock depopulations to small fowl depopulations, and there are various indemnity calculations and processes for determining the indemnity value for each specific species. The Secretary of Agriculture offers an opinion that constitutes an emergency and threatens the U.S. animal population. Payment for the destroyed animals is based on fair market value. Also, under Section 415 (e) of the Plant Protection Act (Title IV of Public Law 106-224), under a declaration of extraordinary emergency because of the presence of a plant pest or noxious weed that is new to or not known to be widely prevalent in the United States, the Secretary may pay compensation for economic losses incurred by as a result of actions taken under the authorities in this section (415).
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- APHIS provides indemnity and compensation to producers to remove animals we classify as affected, suspect, or exposed to diseases of concern and to eliminate dangerous viruses from the environment.
- Authorized by
- Plant Protection Act
- 7 U.S.C. § 8301-8317
- Program site
- http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$987.4M
64%
Other
$567.4M
36%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments