#compensation-scheme

#compensation-scheme

The Windrush commissioner has demanded urgent reform of the compensation scheme after being told by survivors that the Home Office is waiting for us to die off. In a letter seen by the Guardian addressed to migration and equalities minister, Seema Malhotra, and shared with home secretary Yvette Cooper, Rev Clive Foster says it is deeply concerning that 66 people have died while waiting for compensation for the Windrush scandal.

The government is making substantial changes to the compensation scheme for victims of the infected blood scandal, following a critical report about the payment scheme.

We feel gaslit, marginalised and abused by successive governments that purport to care [but] evidently do not, she told Wednesday's hearing. We're suffering from sustained trauma.