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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Amelia Gentleman

Windrush compensation scheme needs significant overhaul, MPs told

Foster and Bates seated at a desk with nameplates and microphones at a hearing, with others behind them
Clive Foster (left) at the public accounts committee hearing on Monday, where he appeared alongside Alan Bates (right) who has been campaigning for victims of the Post Office IT scandal. Photograph: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA

The Windrush compensation scheme has failed to repair a grave injustice and needs a significant overhaul, a Westminster inquiry into government compensation schemes heard on Monday.

Survivors of the Windrush scandal should be given legal support in making claims for compensation to help slash the number of claimants who are denied payouts and to bring the scheme in line with compensation programmes rolled out for victims of the Post Office Horizon and infected blood scandals, the independent Windrush commissioner, Clive Foster, told MPs.

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