Four-week countdown to BPS deadline

With less than four weeks to go to the 15 May BPS deadline, the total number of applications received has surpassed 39,000.

Odile Evans

20 April 2017

DAFM staff member Claire Bryan runs through the BPS applications process with farmer Columba Conlon. \ Brian Farrell

With less than four weeks to the 15 May deadline for Basic Payment Scheme applications, 39,000 applications have been made by farmers so far.

Ninety per cent of them, 35,131 applications, were submitted online by Wednesday this week. Some 4,217 paper-based applications were also received. The Department will continue to provide one-to-one support to farmers as the deadline nears.

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