Rural Payments Agency
There will be times when the Rural Payments service is unavailable because of essential planned maintenance and updates.
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA ) will aim to minimise disruption to the service by scheduling planned maintenance times . We will try to give as much notice as possible about maintenance and downtime of the service, though we may not always be able to do this.
What maintenance and downtime is scheduled Maintenance and downtime scheduled for the next 4 weeks. Some dates and times may change during the 4-week period.
From To Reason for downtime 6:00pm Friday 1 March 12:00am Saturday 2 March Major maintenance 6:00pm Wednesday 6 March 9:00pm Wednesday 6 March Major maintenance 5:15pm Thursday 7 March 9:00am Friday 8 March Major maintenance 6:00pm Wednesday 13 March 9:00pm Wednesday 13 March Major maintenance 5:15pm Thursday 21 March 9:00am Friday 22 March General maintenance
Types of maintenance There are different types of maintenance that need to be carried out.
Type of maintenance Maintenance details Major Planned downtime to release new functionality and software upgrades General Weekly planned downtime to update land and customer details System To fix system functionality. Not planned
Published 10 October 2023
Last updated 28 February 2024
+show all updates 28 February 2024 Updated planned downtime for March
22 February 2024 Further updates made to February/March 2024 scheduled downtimes
21 February 2024 Downtime scheduled for today 21/02 has been updated
6 February 2024 Updated scheduled Rural Payments downtime notifications for February 2024.
19 January 2024 Updates to RP downtime scheduled for Friday 19 January
12 January 2024 Updates to planned Rural Payments downtime for January 2024
5 January 2024 Updates to Friday 12th January 2024 for planned downtime.
2 January 2024 Downtime added for week commencing 1 January 2024
15 December 2023 Updated downtime for week commencing 18 December.
6 December 2023 Update to planned downtime during December 2023
27 November 2023 Planned downtime entered for Wednesday 29th November from 6pm to 9pm
14 November 2023 Updates to planned downtimes during November and December 2023.
2 November 2023 The Rural Payments Service is back online
2 November 2023 Rural Payments service unavailable due to unplanned system maintenance.
2 November 2023 Updates to planned downtime for essential maintenance to Rural Payments for November.
25 October 2023 Change of downtime.
18 October 2023 Updated to scheduled Maintenance
10 October 2023 First published.