Farm Arrangement Questionnaire

When self-employed workers submit earnings data to SSA, they cannot count rental income from a farm they own unless they demonstrate "material participation" in that farm's operation. A material participation arrangement means the farm owners who are seeking to have earnings counted by SSA must perform a combination of physical duties, management decisions, and capital investment in the farm they are renting out. In such cases SSA uses form SSA-7157, the Farm Arrangement Questionnaire, to document material participation. The respondents are workers who are renting farm land to other people but who are involved in the operation of the farm, and want to claim countable income from their work there.

The latest form for Farm Arrangement Questionnaire expires 2021-01-31 and can be found here.