Scheme Payments Update
- Published on: 18 September 2020
- Last updated on: 20 February 2026
Payments up to 20 February 2026
2025 Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) and Complimentary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability (CRISS)
Number of farmers paid: 118,317
Total payments: €837.27M
Payments this week: €1,312,054.99
*The BISS/CRISS figure above includes the 2025 Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers of €34.5m Million and the 2024 National Reserve of €2.8m Million
2025 Eco Scheme
Number of farmers paid 117,816
Total Paid €303.42m
Payments this week €4,226,683.58
Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Schemes (TAMS)
*Due to a delay in payments being processed, the €9m in TAMS 3 is a combination of two pay runs, and there is also a backlog in payments from 2025 currently being processed resulting in higher-than-normal pay runs for February 2026*
TAMS II Amount of total payments: €453.714m plus €11.513m Transitional Spend plus €.603m manual payments = Total €465.83m
TAMS 3 Amount of total payments: €130.287m minus €.034m debts = Total €130.253m
2025 Beef Welfare Scheme
Total Payments €28.07m
Number of farmers paid 24,214
CSP Dairy Beef Welfare Scheme
Total payments: €4.81 million
Number of farmers paid: 7,752
2025 National Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme
Total payments: €4.092m
Number of farmers paid: 8,153
2025 Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP)
Total payments: €51.11m
Number of farmers paid: 15,557
2025 Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) and Areas of Specific Constraint (ASC)
Total payments: €245.25 m
Number of farmers paid: 97,521
Paid this week: €283,966.91
Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES)
Total paid to date: €743.36M
Total paid this week: €0.21M
2025 National Sheep Welfare Scheme
Total payments: €21.20m
Number of farmers paid: 16,716
Paid this week: €57,054.30
2025 Sheep Improvement Scheme
Total payments: €18.05 m
Number of farmers paid: 16,667
Organic Farming Scheme (OFS)
Total payments OFS 2016: €10.6 m
Number of farmers: 1,642 received 2016 Payment
Total payments OFS 2017: €8.9 m
Number of farmers: 1,584 received 2017 Payment
Total payments OFS 2018: €8.3 m
Number of farmers: 1,502 received 2018 Payment
Total payments OFS 2019: €8.7 m
Number of farmers: 1,526 received 2019 Payment
Total payments OFS 2020: €8.7 m
Number of farmers: 1,517 received 2020 Payment
Total payments OFS 2021: €9.6 m
Number of farmers: 1,726 received 2021 Payment
Total payments OFS 2022: €12.2 m
Number of farmers: 2,014 received 2022 Payment
Total payments OFS 2023: €48.3 m
Number of farmers: 3,932 received 2023 Payment
Total payments OFS 2024: €58.07m
Number of farmers: 4,803 received 2024 advance Payment
Total payments OFS 2025: €56.57 m
Number of farmers: 4,977 received 2025 Advance Payment
Total paid this week: €112,551.36
2025 Protein Aid Scheme
Total payments: €9.68m
Number of farmers paid: 1,618
2025 Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM)
Total payments: €12.72m
Number of farmers paid: 2,748
2024 Tillage And Horticulture Support
Total payments: €32.36m
Number of farmers paid: 10,699
Baling Assistance Payment (BAP)
Total payments: €3.67m
Number of farmers paid: 1,312
2025 Red Clover Scheme
Total payments: €1.94m
Number of farmers paid: 1,498
2025 Multi species Sward (MSS) Scheme
Total payments: €0.62m
Number of farmers paid: 753