{"id":93024,"date":"2018-06-20T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f069c9d91228f6233b1af5a870a66d15"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T13:11:57","slug":"press-release-bridging-payments-for-countryside-stewardship-customers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93024","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Bridging Payments for Countryside Stewardship customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Updated to read &#8220;All CS agreement holders&#8221; and add a point on ES customers. <\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>All Countryside Stewardship (CS) agreement holders who claimed in 2017 for their revenue payment will receive a bridging payment by the end of June if they have not been paid by 21 June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>A bridging payment is an interest-free loan to customers in advance of their full year payment. Customers will receive 75% of the current estimated value of their CS 2017 revenue claim. When the full payment is processed and made, the amount paid through the bridging payment will be held back.<\/p>\n<p>While some 82% of 2017 CS claimants have already received a payment for the important environmental work on their farms, bridging payments are being made to ensure that the remaining 18% of farmers and land managers are not left out of pocket for the work and time they have invested.<\/p>\n<p>Letters and emails are being sent to farmers and land managers awaiting payments this week, with a reminder to make sure bank account and contact details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/claim-rural-payments\">Rural Payments Service<\/a> are up-to-date so that bridging payments can be made successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is administrating the payments on behalf of Natural England. This comes ahead of administration work on agri-environment schemes transferring to the RPA later this year.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re continuing to process payments to Environmental Stewardship (ES) customers, and have brought in more people to help pay the remainder as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers and land managers with a 2017 Countryside Stewardship agreement will receive a Bridging Payment for 75% of the current estimated value of their claim<\/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\/93024"}],"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=93024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93088,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93024\/revisions\/93088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}