Emergency Relief Program 2022

ERP 2022 provides financial assistance to producers for losses to crops and trees due to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, tornadoes, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze (including a polar vortex), smoke exposure, excessive moisture, qualify

ERP 2022 provides financial assistance to producers for losses to crops and trees due to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, tornadoes, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze (including a polar vortex), smoke exposure, excessive moisture, qualifying drought, and related conditions occurring in calendar year 2022. Losses due to drought are only eligible for assistance if any area within the county in which the loss occurred was rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having a D2 (severe drought) for eight consecutive weeks or a D3 (extreme drought) or higher level of drought intensity for any period of time during the calendar year. This program is authorized by Title I of the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub. L. 117-328). ERP 2022 will be administered in two tracks. Track 1 will use a streamlined process with pre-filled application forms when the data needed to calculate a payment is already on file with FSA or USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) as a result of the producer previously receiving a crop insurance indemnity under certain crop insurance policies or a payment through FSA's Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP). Track 2 will provide ERP 2022 payments for other eligible losses through revenue-based approach using a traditional application process in which producers will provide the information required to calculate a payment.

Assistance will be used by producers who suffered eligible losses to crops and trees due to qualifying disaster events occurring in calendar year 2022.

The application period began on October 31, 2023; and the deadline to apply was August 14, 2024. FSA is now processing errors, omissions, and appeals. There are no restrictions placed on the time permitted to spend the money awarded.

The assistance will be approved and awarded by FSA to eligible applicants. Payments to eligible applicants will be made as applications are processed.

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.