Infected blood interim compensation payment update
On 17 August 2022, the Government announced interim payments of £100,000 for infected beneficiaries and bereaved partner beneficiaries currently registered with the Infected Blood Support Schemes.
We're continuing to work closely with the Department of Health & Social Care to ensure that payments of £100,000 can be made as quickly as possible. Work is ongoing across Government departments to enable the interim compensation payments to be disregarded for benefit and taxation purposes. Appropriate legislation and guidance are to be implemented, as compensation payments are made independently of any Infected Blood Support Scheme payment.
It is intended to make these payments by the end of October 2022, subject to funding, taxation and benefit disregard legislation and guidance being in place.
We'll be contacting all eligible beneficiaries in October to confirm their payment date and also provide more detail around taxation and benefits disregards. We'll also update our website with further information as soon as this is available.
If you have not received a letter or email from us by 31 October 2022, contact us.
We support people historically infected with hepatitis C and/or HIV from NHS blood or blood products. We also help families, civil or long-term partners after the death of someone infected.