Support for Windrush victims 'a failure'

Published date01 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Critics of the beleaguered scheme have repeatedly called for the Home Office to be stripped of responsibility for determining and handling payments to victims and said it should be turned over to an independent body instead

The compensation scheme has been in place since April 2019, in a bid to right the wrongs of the scandal, which emerged a year earlier and saw many British citizens, mostly from the Caribbean, denied access to healthcare and benefits and threatened with deportation.

Despite growing concerns around the number of people dying before receiving payouts, the Home Office...

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