# § 1471g. Benefits limitation
**(a)** **Total amount of benefits** The total amount of benefits that a person shall be entitled to receive annually under one or more of the programs established under this subchapter may not exceed $50,000.
**(b)** **Issuance of regulations** The Secretary shall issue regulations—
**1** defining the term “person”, which shall 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;
See References in Text note below.
**(2)** prescribing such 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” shall include, in the case of any cooperative association of producers, each member of the association with respect to benefits due to such 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 such person receives a disaster payment under the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 on such lost production.
**(d)** **Total combined payment and benefits limitation** Each person otherwise eligible for a livestock emergency benefit under this subchapter in 1988 shall be subject to the combined payment and benefits limitation established under section 211(c) of the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988.
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**Source Credit**: (Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 609, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 930; amended Pub. L. 110–234, title I, § 1603(g)(2), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1011; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title I, § 1603(g)(2), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1739; Pub. L. 113–79, title I, § 1609(b)(1), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 709.)
## Editorial Notes
### References in Text
(before the amendment made by section 1603(a) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008), referred to in subsec. (b)(1), probably means before the amendment made by section 1603(b)(3)(A) of that Act, , which struck out provisions in relating to issuance of regulations defining the term “person”.
The Disaster Assistance Act of 1988, referred to in subsecs. (c) and (d), is , , . Section 211(c) of that act is set out as a note under . For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1988 Amendment note set out under and Tables.
### Codification
and made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by were repealed by .
### Amendments
2014—Subsec. (b)(1). , amended language inserted by . See 2008 Amendment note below.
2008—Subsec. (b)(1). , as amended by , inserted “(before the amendment made by section 1603(a) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008)” after “”.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 2014 Amendment
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### Effective Date of 2008 Amendment
Amendment of this section and repeal of by effective , the date of enactment of , see , set out as an Effective Date note under .
### Effective Date
Section effective 15 days after , with subsecs. (c) and (d) of this section applicable only with respect to any livestock emergency in 1988, see , set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 1988 Amendment note under .
### Inapplicability of Section
Section inapplicable to 2014 through 2018 crops of covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .
Section inapplicable to 2008 through 2012 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .
Section inapplicable to 2002 through 2007 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .
Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , and ending , see .