Home Office must be stripped of ‘hostile’ Windrush compensation scheme, campaigners demand
Government's scheme is so bureaucratic and complicated that some victims have died before they could successfully complete it
Jamaican immigrants welcomed by RAF officials from the Colonial Office after the ex-troopship HMT 'Empire Windrush' landed them at Tilbury.
THE Home Office must be stripped of running the “hostile” Windrush compensation scheme as victims are still suffering long waits and underpaid claims, a leading international human rights group demanded today.
In a damning report, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Tory ministers to hand over the process to an independent body as the Home Office scheme is “not fit for purpose.”
The scheme was established by an Act of Parliament in 2020 after it emerged that thousands of people who moved to Britain between 1948 and 1971 had been incorrectly classed as illegal immigrants.
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