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The Post Office told the select committee in December that legal fees had made up £136m of the cost of administering the Post Office-led schemes since 2020, which is around 27% of the ...
[165] Shortly afterward, the government promised "fair and speedy" pay-outs for the 555 victims of the Horizon IT scandal who had been excluded from the Post Office's compensation scheme. [166] In July 2021, the government announced that subpostmasters wrongly convicted of offences would get interim compensation of up to £100,000. [167]
A 91-year-old former sub-postmistress, the oldest victim of the Post Office IT scandal, has been offered less than a third of what she had claimed in compensation.
Hundreds are still awaiting compensation despite the previous government announcing that those who have had convictions quashed are eligible for £600,000 payouts.
Watch as Paula Vennells' closing statement was heard in the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Tuesday, 17 December. More than 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 after faulty ...
Billions have been earmarked for victims of the Post Office and infected blood scandals. ... the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman recommended payouts of between £1,000 and £2,950 each ...
A petition demanding compensation for people affected by the Post Office Horizon IT scandal is nearing 600,000 signatures, as campaigner Alan Bates gives evidence to the public inquiry into the ...
Mrs Hamilton, 66, was falsely accused of stealing £36,000 from the Post Office branch she ran in South Warnborough, Hampshire. She pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of false accounting to avoid ...