Single payment application sometimes goes wrong

Take care with your single payment application. It has landed a lot of farmers in trouble. Denis Lehane reports some case studies

With the deadline just around the corner for the submission of the single payment application (next Tuesday, May 15), we review some more problems faced by farmers last year.

In the vast majority of cases, farmers will get through the process without too much bother. But it all goes horribly wrong for some — as shown in these examples which eventually found their way into parliamentary questions in the Dáil.