Skip to main content
Ministers announce new scheme to compensate workers caught up in Post Office Horizon scandal

A NEW scheme to compensate workers caught up in the Post Office Horizon scandal is now open, ministers announced today.

Postmasters who took the first High Court legal action against the state-run firm agreed a settlement worth £43 million plus legal costs in 2019.

The case marked a turning point in the scandal, which began after the company began installing Horizon accounting software in the late 1990s.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
General view of the Cammell Laird ship yard on the River Mersey in Liverpool
Workers' Rights / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025

KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow

CONTROVERSY: A court artist sketch of Nicholas Johnson KC crossexamining nurse Lucy Letby at Manchester Crown Court, May 18 2023
Features / 14 September 2025
14 September 2025

Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors

A Post Office sign
Post Office / 14 July 2025
14 July 2025