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Billions set aside to compensate infected blood and Post Office scandals
Victims and campaigners outside Central Hall in Westminster, London, after the publication of the Infected Blood Inquiry report, May 20, 2024
BILLIONS will be set aside to compensate the victims of the infected blood and Post Office Horizon scandals, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced today.
About £11.8 billion will be available for 30,000 NHS patients who were infected with HIV or hepatitis C from contaminated blood products from the 1970s to early 1990s, a scandal that caused thousands of deaths.
And £1.8bn will compensate subpostmasters wrongly accused of fraud due to faulty software, some of whom faced jail, fines, and ostracism.
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