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<p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) estimates that as of 5 June 2016, 86,521 (99%)
claimants have received a payment on their 2015 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) claim.
Of these, 82,460 have received a claim payment; 3,936 bridging payments; and 125 a
manual hardship payment. There are a number of claims where processing has been completed
successfully but they have not resulted in a payment for reasons such as the claim
being under minimum claim size, or the Agency awaiting information on probate cases.</p><p>
</p><p>The RPA will continue to make top up payments throughout the remainder of the
payment window up to the end of June 2016.</p><p> </p><p>While the payment window
runs between December and June, the RPA expects to make 90% of payments on eligible
claims by the end of December this year and all remaining payments as promptly as
possible. As of 5 June the RPA had received 86,581 applications for BPS 2016.</p><p>
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