{"id":77194,"date":"2016-12-13T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T12:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ff5ffee9e63a2d2ea11e10248b17f64c"},"modified":"2016-12-13T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T12:34:38","slug":"news-story-2016-basic-payment-scheme-payments-continue-to-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77194","title":{"rendered":"News story: 2016 Basic Payment Scheme payments continue to flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Rural Payments Agency (<abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr>) has announced that 59,000 farmers in England have now received their 2016 Basic Payment Scheme (<abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr>) money.<\/p>\n<p>The payments to some 68% of eligible claimants, worth \u00a3822 million, include a range of 2016 <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> claim types and sizes, including young farmer, those inspected and farmers with common land.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> remains focused on paying 90% of eligible claims by the end of December.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> payments are made direct to bank accounts via <abbr title=\"Bankers Automated Clearing Services\">BACS<\/abbr> transfer so farmers should make sure <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> has the most up-to-date account details. Once a payment has been made a remittance advice is sent in the post, confirming the amount paid.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"support\">Support<\/h2>\n<p>More information on <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> 2016, including scheme rules and details of how payments are calculated, is available at <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.GOV.UK\/rpa\/bps2016\">www.GOV.UK\/rpa\/bps2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rural Payments Agency provides 2016 BPS payment update<\/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\/77194"}],"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=77194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}