Emergency Relief Program

ERP provides financial assistance to producers for losses to crops, trees, bushes, and vines due to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze (including a polar vortex), smoke exposure, excessive moisture, qualify

ERP provides financial assistance to producers for losses to crops, trees, bushes, and vines due to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze (including a polar vortex), smoke exposure, excessive moisture, qualifying drought, and related conditions occurring in calendar years 2020 and 2021.

Assistance will be used by producers who suffered eligible losses to crops, trees, bushes, and vines due to due to qualifying disaster events occurring in calendar years 2020 and 2021.

The application period for ERP Phase 1 began in May 2022 and ended on December 16, 2022. For ERP Phase 2, the application period is January 23, 2023, through June 2, 2023. All funds had to be obligated before funding expired on December 31, 2023. The application period has ended and applications will only be processed via relief.

The assistance will be approved and awarded by FSA to eligible applicants. For ERP Phase 1, payments to eligible applicants will be made as applications are processed. For ERP Phase 2, producers will receive an initial payment equal to the lesser of their calculated payment or $2,000, and a final payment will be issued after the application period ends. If total calculated payments exceed the total funding available for ERP Phase 2, the ERP factor used to calculate payments may be adjusted and the final payment amounts will be prorated to stay within the amount of available funding.

From 15 to 30 days. Applicants may request reconsideration of a decision by the decision authority or appeal such decisions to a higher authority including the county and State FSA committees and the National Appeals Division. Appeal regulations in 7 CFR parts 11 and 780 apply.