{"id":84921,"date":"2017-09-29T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=aa650e0ebebf2e1343608bae298a73b3"},"modified":"2017-09-29T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:56:00","slug":"news-story-bps-2017-payments-exchange-rate-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84921","title":{"rendered":"News story: BPS 2017 payments exchange rate set"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The euro exchange rate for calculating BPS 2017 payments has been set. The rate, an average of the European Central Bank exchange rates set in September, will be \u20ac1 = 0.89470.<\/p>\n<p>BPS payments for England are set in euros and then converted into sterling. The previous year\u2019s exchange rates for BPS were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BPS 2016: \u20ac1 = \u00a30.85228<\/li>\n<li>BPS 2015: \u20ac1 = \u00a30.73129<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RPA will make full payments on BPS 2017 claims from the beginning of December.<\/p>\n<p>RPA makes all payments directly into bank accounts by BACS transfer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has confirmed the exchange rate for Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) 2017 payments made in sterling.<\/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\/84921"}],"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=84921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84933,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84921\/revisions\/84933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}