 As of 2013, 90,000 African-American, Hispanic, female and Native American farmers had filed claims.It was reported that some had been found fraudulent, or transparently bogus.In Maple Hill, North Carolina by 2013, the number of successful claimants was four times the number of farms with 1 out of 9 African-Americans being paid, while "claimants were not required [by the USDA] to present documentary evidence that they had been unfairly treated or had even tried to farm."