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 farmland to other people but who are involved in the operation of the farm and want to claim countable income from their work there. We are submitting this non-substantive change request to remove the signature requirement and are replacing the Penalty of Perjury Statement with a Penalty of Perjury Warning Statement. We are also revising the Privacy Act Statement and the Paperwork Reduction Act Statement.

The latest form for Farm Arrangement Questionnaire expires 2026-11-30 and can be found here.