Government Executive reports on a bill which passed the House requiring government agencies to recover payments they make improperly. Why the title of this post? Because a number of years ago Congress passed a law requiring FSA to let farmers keep payments which were made improperly. Talk about double-faced!
To be fair, I should add this is all based on my memory, which is fallible; the law permits FSA to recover payments if the recovery can be made within a period (90 days maybe?); and the reason for the law was that farmers claimed they didn't realize they had been overpaid, so they used the money in their operations and felt it was unfair to be required to repay when it was FSA which made the mistake. Regardless, my Calvinistic heritage rebels at that.
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