{"id":50490,"date":"2014-11-20T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f1787ee486878a435051d97004340177"},"modified":"2014-11-20T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:09:43","slug":"press-release-rpa-announces-2014-sps-entitlement-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50490","title":{"rendered":"Press release: RPA announces 2014 SPS entitlement values"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rural Payments Agency (RPA<\/abbr>) has announced the values of entitlements for the three English regions under the 2014 Single Payment Scheme (SPS<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n

\u20ac 251.39 for non-SDA<\/abbr> (Severely Disadvantaged Areas)<\/p>\n

\u20ac 201.32 for upland SDA<\/abbr>, other than moorland<\/p>\n

\u20ac 35.26 for upland SDA<\/abbr> moorland<\/p>\n

The exchange rate which will be applied is \u20ac1= \u00a30.77730 (based on the value of the Euro as of 30 September 2014). <\/p>\n

The RPA<\/abbr> uses the revalued figures to calculate each SPS<\/abbr> 2014 payment. It will start to make full payments to farmers whose claims have been validated as soon as possible after the payment window opens in December 2014.<\/p>\n

RPA<\/abbr> Change Director Ian Hewett said: <\/p>\n

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There are a number of changes in 2014 which will affect the amount customers will receive against their SPS<\/abbr> claim.<\/p>\n

For instance this year, claims over \u20ac2,000 will be eligible for a reimbursement from the unused amounts from last year\u2019s financial discipline deduction, resulting in most customers receiving an additional payment with their 2014 claim of 3.1 per cent.<\/p>\n

This year we will still be taking an amount for Financial Discipline, but this will be at a lower rate of 1.3 per cent. Modulation will also no longer be deducted from payments in 2014, due to changes in the way Rural Development is funded.<\/p>\n

Against this however we have to factor in other variables, such as the reduced budget we have for 2014, announced by the European Commission in December last year.<\/p>\n

This, coupled with the fact the exchange rate for 2014 is lower than in previous years, will mean that payments won\u2019t be worth as much in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Payment values are established before claims are finalised and after the Financial Discipline Mechanism (FDM) and any penalties have been applied. The SPS<\/abbr> payment made will, therefore, be lower than the values shown on the Entitlements Statement. <\/p>\n

2014 Entitlements Statements <\/p>\n

RPA<\/abbr> will start to make SPS<\/abbr> 2014 Entitlements Statements available to view on SPS<\/abbr> Online from January 2015. These statements will confirm the number and value of each farmer\u2019s SPS<\/abbr> 2014 entitlements. Farmers and agents will be able to print any of their statements from SPS<\/abbr> Online.<\/p>\n

Paper copies of Entitlements Statements will be sent out in January 2015, but only to those farmers or agents who applied on paper forms for 2014. The RPA<\/abbr> will send guidance notes with the statements and further guidance will be available online.<\/p>\n

Farmers should check their 2014 Entitlements Statement and if they believe the information shown on the statement is incorrect, they should notify the RPA<\/abbr> in writing as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entitlement values announced for three English regions under the 2014 Single Payment Scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}