RPA Make Over 80,000 Advance BPS Payments
RPA MAKE OVER 80,000 ADVANCE BPS PAYMENTS
The RPA yesterday (1st August) made the first part payment of Basic Payment for 2023 to 81,090 applicants (97 per cent of applicants) of which 80,554 have received the money with the balance subject to “banking holds” and the money should be released shortly.
Where a payment has not yet been released, the RPA is working to pay where possible in two further payment slots in August.
The payment should represent half the currently assessed sum due for 2023. That total may change with processing so that the balancing payment in December might not be identical to this payment.
In general, this payment means that English farmers have now had over half the money due over the transition period of 2021 to 2027. Future payments are now delinked from land and farming and are to erode away. The 2024 delinked payment is to be at half the rate used in 2020.