{"id":68719,"date":"2016-03-18T09:09:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T09:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9c95ad9ee7da9ac0bdbbc732df57d5f7"},"modified":"2016-03-18T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T09:09:39","slug":"news-story-2015-basic-payment-scheme-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68719","title":{"rendered":"News story: 2015 Basic Payment Scheme update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Over 72,700 farmers (almost 84% of all eligible claims) have now received their 2015 Basic Payment Scheme (<abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr>) payments, bringing the total paid out for the 2015 scheme to \u00a31.15 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers have said they would benefit from more certainty regarding when they will receive their payment. Last week the Rural Payments Agency (<abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr>) started contacting farmers who have not yet received their 2015 <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> payment to provide greater clarity on when they will be paid. <\/p>\n<p>Farmers will receive an email (or letter if they don\u2019t have an email address registered in the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralpayments.service.gov.uk\/\">Rural Payments service<\/a>) during March and the <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> aim to have contacted everyone by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>Claim statements to support 2015 <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> payments are now being issued every week in batches. Guidance on how 2015 <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> payments are calculated is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/basic-payment-scheme-guidance-for-2015\/how-bps-2015-payments-are-calculated\">GOV.UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> would like to remind people to ensure that their registered email address in the Rural Payments service is correct and if it isn\u2019t to amend it using the service. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BPS 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\/68719"}],"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=68719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}