{"id":56717,"date":"2015-05-06T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=758e23ad02135179843aec14ef7d6eaf"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:47:53","slug":"news-story-latest-information-on-applying-for-basic-payment-scheme-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56717","title":{"rendered":"News story: Latest information on applying for Basic Payment Scheme 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Rural Payments Agency (<abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr>) has now issued all pre-populated BP5 application forms. Anyone who has not received their form, either by email or post, should contact the Rural Payments helpline on 03000 200 301. A form will then be printed out and posted within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> has now received almost 8,500 completed applications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 id=\"commons-claimants-get-pre-populated-forms\">Commons claimants get pre-populated forms<\/h3>\n<p>This week pre-populated forms are being sent out to 4,000 customers who are expected to claim <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> 2015 on common land. Anyone in this group should receive their forms in the next few days. Guidance for this specialist group of claimants can be found online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/rpa\/bps\">GOV.UK\/rpa\/bps<\/a> with paper copies due to be sent out shortly.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"important-note-on-claiming-common-land\">Important note on claiming common land<\/h3>\n<p>Please check Part C of your application form carefully. If the <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> has included common land in Part C you should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>remove any common land parcels from Part C, by putting an \u2018X\u2019 in column C9; and <\/li>\n<li>make sure all the common land grazing rights you want to claim <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> for are included in Part E of your application form.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"receipts\">Receipts<\/h3>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> will be issuing receipts to applicants who have posted their BP5 forms. These will be sent out within 48 hours of a form being received. <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"cross-border-claiming--wales-and-northern-ireland-deadline-is-15-may\">Cross Border claiming \u2013 Wales and Northern Ireland deadline is 15 May<\/h3>\n<p>To ensure no-one misses out, the <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> is currently contacting all farmers with less than 5 hectares of agricultural land in England but who, the Agency believes, may have land in another part of the UK. This could mean that, in total, they have enough land to be eligible to claim <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<p>Cross border farmers are reminded they need to submit applications and supporting documents by midnight on the deadline set by the agency that is paying them. This means that if their paying agency is in Wales or Northern Ireland, all applications (to any of the four parts of the UK) must be received by them by midnight on 15 May 2015.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"mobile-support-units\">Mobile support units<\/h3>\n<p>Mobile support units will now be visiting the following agricultural markets to support farmers with their applications:<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<ul>\n<li>18 May \u2013 Ross on Wye, Herefordshire <\/li>\n<li>18 &amp; 27 May \u2013 Skipton, North Yorkshire <\/li>\n<li>19 May \u2013 Tavistock, Devon <\/li>\n<li>19-21 May \u2013 Isle of Wight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Further information is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/find-help-to-claim-rural-payments\">GOV.UK<\/a> and more venues for the mobile support units will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest news on applications for Basic Payment Scheme 2015.<\/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\/56717"}],"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=56717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}