{"id":77467,"date":"2016-12-20T15:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=29633fff1d12e1e658468faae7e9c026"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:33:40","slug":"news-story-2016-basic-payment-scheme-bps-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77467","title":{"rendered":"News story: 2016 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Rural Payments Agency (<abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr>) has announced that over 68,200 farmers in England have now received a 2016 <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> payment.<\/p>\n<p>The payments to some 79% of eligible claimants, worth \u00a31.14 billion, 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 BACS 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 href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/rpa\/bps2016\">www.GOV.UK\/rpa\/bps2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cross-compliance\">2017 cross-compliance<\/h2>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> will soon be publishing the 2017 cross compliance guide and a video on inspections on GOV.UK. Farmers and landowners must follow cross compliance rules if they claimed for the Basic Payment Scheme (<abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr>), a stewardship scheme or the English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS) in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The rules come into effect from 1 January 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More farmers in England receive BPS payments<\/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\/77467"}],"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=77467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}