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Recommendation 5
5
Accepted
Home Office assumptions for Windrush compensation claims lack sufficient detail
Conclusion
The Home Office should provide more details of how it is identifying the assumptions underpinning its claim volume scenarios and how it is establishing its planning estimates in its response to this Report. (Paragraph 32) 88 The Windrush Compensation Scheme A lower than expected number of applications
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The government commits to providing an update with the number of full and final impact on life payments made at each level of award, in addition to its regularly published transparency data.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The current planning assumption is that there are between 4,000 and 6,000 eligible claims, and this has been reached following comprehensive revisions to our scenario analysis. The scenario analysis uses operational, qualitative, and quantitative information from the Windrush Scheme and the Windrush Compensation Scheme as well as further insights from communications activity, outreach, and engagement with people affected. While estimating the number of affected people remains extremely challenging, we think that this revised planning assumption more accurately reflects the number of eligible claims. The revision to our planning assumption does not change the department’s commitment to ensuring all affected members of the Windrush generation can make a claim and receive the maximum compensation to which they are entitled.
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