Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 31
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£10,000 preliminary Windrush award should be provided to all acknowledged victims.
Conclusion
The Home Office should provide the preliminary £10,000 impact on life award to all those the Department has previously acknowledged were wrongly subjected to immigration enforcement measures or were wrongly denied proof of their lawful status as a result of the Windrush scandal. The award should be issued irrespective of whether the claimant can evidence harm or financial losses caused by the Home Office’s failure to ensure that individuals could demonstrate their lawful status; it should be made in recognition of the Department’s appalling treatment of the Windrush generation when it lost sight of this cohort and in recognition of the fact that many of those affected are part of an ageing generation that has contributed heavily to this country, but that cannot wait many years for compensation to be calculated. The £10,000 should be paid within two months and any further calculated compensation entitlement must follow.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response focuses on compensating legal fees up to £500 for immigration applications, rather than addressing the recommendation for a preliminary £10,000 impact on life award.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Windrush Compensation Scheme is open for applications to anyone who feels they have been wrongly treated and suffered losses due to an inability to prove status, where it is clear that the Home Office has wrongly enacted an immigration enforcement action we will process and offer preliminary payments of £10,000. We are unable to directly identify or make any assessment on eligibility of those individuals who have not made contact with us via the Windrush Help Team, or through network events or outreach activity.
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