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Discrimination Financial Assistance Program

Program Information

Popular name

DFAP

Program Number

10.984

Program objective

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is authorized by Section 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to provide financial assistance for farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who experienced discrimination by USDA in farm lending prior to 2021. The law provides $2.2 billion for this purpose. USDA established the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) to implement this assistance.

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. 2023

    Issued payments to eligible applicants under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP), which aims to provide financial assistance to farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who experienced discrimination prior to January 2021.

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.

Publicly available information can be found at https://22007apply.gov/.

Program details

Eligible applicants

Additional resources