{"id":74637,"date":"2016-09-30T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e4a555a46c213d6c56b46db9c2b17c6f"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:19:29","slug":"press-release-euro-exchange-rate-set-for-2016-basic-payment-scheme-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74637","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Euro exchange rate set for 2016 Basic Payment Scheme payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Euro exchange rate has been set for calculating 2016 Basic Payment Scheme (<abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr>) payments.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> payments for England are set in Euros and then converted into sterling and the rate, an average of the European Central Bank exchange rates set in September, will be \u20ac1 = \u00a30.85228.<\/p>\n<p>The previous year\u2019s exchange rate for 2015 <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> was \u20ac1 = \u00a30.73129.<\/p>\n<p>The Rural Payments Agency (<abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr>) will make full payments on 2016 <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> claims from the opening of the payment window in December.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> makes all payments directly into bank accounts by BACS transfer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BPS payments for England are set in Euros and then converted into sterling. The rate for 2016 has now been set.<\/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\/74637"}],"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=74637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}