{"id":55689,"date":"2015-03-24T09:36:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9f41af29e0ba4d51228dc3827168294c"},"modified":"2015-03-24T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:36:27","slug":"news-story-rpa-publishes-new-basic-payment-scheme-forms-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55689","title":{"rendered":"News story: RPA publishes new Basic Payment Scheme forms online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has moved swiftly to deliver on a new approach, announced last Friday, to ensure farmers, landowners and agents have the help they need to make a Basic Payment Scheme (<abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr>) claim.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the agency emailed all farmers and agents who have registered for the new Rural Payments system, outlining the options now available to make their application.<\/p>\n<p>From yesterday (Monday, 23 March) farmers can find guidance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/how-to-apply-for-the-basic-payment-scheme-in-2015\">GOV.UK<\/a>  to help them prepare their claim.<\/p>\n<p>This includes a blank <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> claim form (BP5); the <abbr title=\"Request for changes to Rural Land Register and for the transfer of entitlements\">RLE1<\/abbr> form for changes to, and transfers of, land and entitlements; and land use codes for 2015 claims. <\/p>\n<p>Farmers and agents can use the blank claim form to prepare for their claim, ahead of receiving a pre-populated one during April which they can then complete and submit in time for the end of the application window. <\/p>\n<p>Those wishing to make land changes can now use the <abbr title=\"Request for changes to Rural Land Register and for the transfer of entitlements\">RLE1<\/abbr> form to let RPA know. This form can also be used to transfer entitlements &#8211; the deadline for transferring <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> entitlements to be used in 2015 will be confirmed in the next few days and we will publish more information as soon as we have it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blank BPS claim form and RLE1 form now available<\/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\/55689"}],"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=55689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}