Grant Payment Timelines

To help with planning, here’s a step-by-step guide on what happens after you submit a claim for grant payment. Timings below are based on standard processing cycles once all required paperwork is submitted and cleared.

Grant Payment Timeline – What to Expect Grant Payment Timeline – What to Expect

1

Submit and Clear Your Claim

  • Deadline to make the next European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) drawdown: Claims must be submitted and cleared for payment by the 15th of each month.
  • If your claim misses this deadline, even by a day, it will fall into the following month’s cycle.
2

Monthly Drawdown Request

  • We send one drawdown request per month to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM).
  • This is submitted on the last day of the month.
3

Processing Time

  • Once submitted and cleared, DAFM processes and releases funds to us on the 13th of the month.
4

We Process Payments to Clients

  • Once funds are received, we begin to issue payments from the 13th of each month to the end of month.

2025 Drawdown Calendar 2025 Drawdown Calendar

For more information or to set up an appointment, please contact ‘Grant Support’ at BIM on:

Grants Support Service

Grants Support Service

012144121

If you call outside of business hours or if the service is experiencing a high volume of calls, you will be forwarded to the answering service. In such cases please leave your name, contact number and a short overview of nature of your enquiry. We aim to call you back as soon as possible and before the end of the next working day.

This service will be provided on a confidential basis.

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