{"id":78261,"date":"2017-01-24T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T10:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f8d84b830d48e15e89078ce908eeae98"},"modified":"2017-01-24T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T10:42:42","slug":"news-story-rural-payments-agency-pays-93-of-basic-payment-scheme-claims-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78261","title":{"rendered":"News story: Rural Payments Agency pays 93% of  Basic Payment Scheme claims in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>More than 80,000 (93%) farmers in England have now received their 2016 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) money.<\/p>\n<p>This means the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has paid 93% of eligible claims more than two months ahead of its end of March target.<\/p>\n<p>The payments are worth \u00a31.48 billion and include a range of 2016 BPS claim types and sizes, including cross border, young farmer, those inspected and farmers with common land.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I know how important these payments are to farmers and I am pleased that the RPA is ahead of schedule meeting their target of making 93% of payments well before the end of March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This is good progress. However I am very clear that the Agency will remain fully focussed on paying all remaining eligible claims as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>BPS Operational Delivery Director Paul Caldwell said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We know how much these payments matter to farmers and the progress made so far underlines our commitment to getting money into bank accounts as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We\u2019ve worked hard to make sure farmers receive their payments, but we know there is still more work to do. I remain absolutely focused on ensuring the Agency continues to pay every eligible claim.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>BPS payments are made direct to bank accounts, so farmers should make sure RPA 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<p>More information on 2016 BPS, including scheme rules and details of how payments are calculated, is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/bps-2016\">www.gov.uk\/rpa\/bps2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rural Payments Agency reaches its public target to pay 93% of eligible 2016 Basic Payment Scheme claims more than 2 months ahead of schedule.<\/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\/78261"}],"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=78261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}