Assistance program
Cotton Transition Assistance Program
$28,511 committed in FY2018–FY2018
- Agency
- Farm Service Agency, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments With Unrestricted Use
- CFDA number
- 10.114
- What it does
- CTAP is a temporary program that provides payments to producers on farms for which cotton base acres were in existence as of September 30, 2013.
- Who benefits
- The Farm Service Agency (FSA) will provide adequate notice to producer about the new CTAP regulations so they will be ready to begin sign-up for CTAP. Payments will process as soon as possible after October 1, 2014, as soon as the application period closes. Therefore, to begin providing benefits to producers in a timely fashion, the final rule is effective when published in the Federal Register.
- Who applies
- An eligible producer for CTAP is required to be a person or legal entity who is actively engaged in farming and otherwise eligible to receive payment. CTAP payments in each of the 2014 and 2015 program years are limited to $40,000 per person or legal entity, similar to the $40,000 per person or legal entity limitation to applied to DCP under The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, P.L. 110-246. A person or legal entity is ineligible for payments if the person's or legal entity's average gross income (AGI) for the applicable compliance program year is in excess of $900,000. If a person with an indirect interest in a legal entity has AGI in excess of $900,000, the CTAP payments subject to AGI compliance provisions to the legal entity will be reduced as calculated based on the percent interest of the person in the legal entity receiving the payment.
- Authorized by
- The Agricultural Act of 2014
Committed by fiscal year
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- Committed through this program
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Direct payments