2,000 farmers still waiting for 2009 payments

The latest RPA figures show that by the end of last week, May 28, 103,513 farmers had received a full 2009 SPS payment, 96.3 per cent of the estimated total claimant population of 107,500.

They show that 97.51 per cent of the estimated total fund of £1.86billion has now been paid out.

Of the 4,000 remaining claims, around 2,000 claims have been processed and resulted in no payment being due. Reasons include farmers holding entitlements for the wrong area type, submitting duplicate claim forms or receiving payment from the Devolved Administrations.

“Processing now continues on approximately 2,000 claims where no payment has been made to date and RPA is working to validate these as quickly as possible,” an agency spokeswoman said.  

She some of these are complex cases involving probate, business partnership changes and domestic issues, not all of which will be eligible for payment.

The RPA met its EU target to pay 95.2 per cent of the SPS 2009 fund value by end of June 2010 during April.

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