{"id":58894,"date":"2015-07-08T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1986f395f26d4b92ec454c72013949c5"},"modified":"2015-07-08T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:36:31","slug":"news-story-final-call-for-basic-payment-scheme-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=58894","title":{"rendered":"News story: Final call for Basic Payment Scheme claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>With just 2 days to go until the final deadline for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/basic-payment-scheme\">Basic Payment Scheme (BPS)<\/a> claims, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has received 88,105 applications \u2013 just over 850 of them in the penalty period.<\/p>\n<p>The Agency has sent out final reminders by letter and email to those who have been emailed a BP5 application form but are yet to apply. Farmers who do not apply in the first year of BPS will lose their entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>The Agency is also reminding farmers that anyone applying between 16 June and 10 July loses 1% of the value of their claim for every working day their form is delayed. <\/p>\n<p>Farmers are also being contacted to ask them to provide any missing information on their BP5 forms.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"applying-for-bps-2015\">Applying for BPS 2015<\/h3>\n<p>Farmers can download forms and find more information at  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/basic-payment-scheme\">www.gov.uk\/rpa\/bps<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Completed forms can be sent to:<\/p>\n<div class=\"address\">\n<div class=\"adr org fn\">\n<p>Rural Payments Agency<br \/>\n<br \/>PO Box 352<br \/>\n<br \/>Worksop<br \/>\n<br \/>S80 9FG<br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Applicants are advised to use a signed-for service, ensuring they include all the necessary documents in the envelope and use enough postage to cover the weight and size of the package.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers can also take their forms to one of 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/find-help-to-claim-rural-payments#rpa-drop-in-centres\">RPA drop-in centres<\/a> up to 5pm on 10 July in Carlisle, Workington, Newcastle, York, Reading and Exeter. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who needs support with making a claim can contact the Rural Payments helpline on 03000 200 301 (Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5pm).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline for applications for Basic Payment Scheme 2015 is midnight on 10 July<\/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\/58894"}],"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=58894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}