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<p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) said it would investigate Basic Payment Scheme
(BPS) 2015 claims where there’s a discrepancy between the claim information and that
held on the Rural Payments service, through a planned payment reconciliation process.
This started after the BPS 2016 application window closed and looked at an initial
stock of 13,600 claims for England.</p><p> </p><p>Of these claims, 14 related to farmers
in St Helens and 41 in Merseyside. The RPA does not hold this information for the
UK. The agency will continue to investigate new queries which customers raise and
make any top-up payments due.</p><p> </p><p>No comparable data is available for the
previous scheme which ran between 2005 and 2014.</p>
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