7 U.S.C. § 1471g — Benefits limitation

(a) Total amount of benefits The total amount of benefits that a person must be entitled to receive annually under one or more of the programs established under this subchapter cannot exceed $50,000. (b) Issuance of regulations The Secretary must issue regulations— (1) defining the term “person”, which must conform, to the extent practicable, to the regulations defining the term “person” issued under section 1308 of this title (before the amendment made by section 1603(a) 1 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008), or successor statute; (2) prescribing that rules as the Secretary determines necessary to ensure a fair and reasonable application of the limitation established under this section; and (3) providing that the term “person” must include, in the case of any cooperative association of producers, each member of the association with respect to benefits due to that member of the association. (c) Receipt of other disaster payments No person may receive benefits under this subchapter attributable to lost production of a feed commodity due to a natural disaster in 1988 to the extent that that person receives a disaster payment under the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 on that lost production. (d) Total combined payment and benefits limitation Each person otherwise eligible for a livestock^* emergency benefit under this subchapter in 1988 must be subject to the combined payment and benefits limitation established under section 211(c) of the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988.