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Pandemic Livestock Indemnity Program

Program Information

Popular name

PLIP

Program Number

10.138

Program objective

The Pandemic Livestock Indemnity Program (PLIP) provides direct financial assistance to livestock owners for losses of livestock and poultry depopulated from March 1, 2020, through December 26, 2020, due to insufficient processing access during the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the cost of depopulation and disposal.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2022

    FSA received 368 PLIP applications and issued payments totaling approximately $47,303,718.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

The program will be administered according to the Notice of Funds Availability published in the Federal Register. Procedural handbooks are available in county FSA offices.