Delay in support pay leaves farmers in dire straits
Not since his farm support payments, once again, failed to arrive – they’re overdue since June. Pat is one of 40,000 farmers in a similar financial bind.
Pat is owed €8,900 in single farm payments and disadvantaged area payments, delayed since last June due to technical problems at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. All farms must be logged on a digital map detailing the land they are actively farming. Pat has not changed his area in the last three years, so the payments should be unchanged.
