Interim Payments for Bereaved Families
Infected Blood Inquiry · Second Interim Report · Issued 5 April 2023 · Addressed to: UK Government
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
I recommend that an interim payment of £100,000 should be paid to recognise the deaths of people to date unrecognised and alleviate immediate suffering. This should be done as follows: a) where someone infected died as a child or died as an adult without a partner or child, the interim payment should be made to their bereaved parents (split equally if separated); b) where someone infected has died and there is no bereaved partner but there is a bereaved child or children (including any adopted child), the interim payment should be paid to the child or children (split equally); and c) where someone infected has died and there is no bereaved partner, child nor parent but there is a bereaved full sibling or siblings, the interim payment should be paid to the sibling or siblings (split equally).
Infected Blood Inquiry, Second Interim Report · 5 Apr 2023 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- Further interim payments of £210,000 to living infected beneficiaries were opened in October 2025, bringing combined interim payments for eligible estates to up to £310,000 (Infected Blood Interim Compensation Payment Scheme: Further Interim Payments, Cabinet Office, October 2025).
Response — verbatim from government
●UK Government — initial response
The Government recognises that people have been waiting for too long to receive compensation and for justice to be delivered on this scandal. In order to provide financial support prior to the rollout of the Scheme, the Government has made interim payments to infected beneficiaries, bereaved partners, and the estates of deceased infected people. From October 2022, interim payments of £100,000 were made available to infected beneficiaries and bereaved partners. In October 2024, following a commitment made in the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, the Government opened applications for interim payments of £100,000 to the estates of the deceased infected people whose deaths had not been recognised to date. This complies with the spirit of recommendation 12 of the Second Interim Report, to recognise the deaths of infected people to date unrecognised, and to alleviate immediate suffering. In addition to those recommendations, further interim payments of £210,000 were made to living infected beneficiaries in June 2024. So far, over £1.2 billion has been paid in interim compensation payments to victims of the Infected Blood scandal and their families.
UK Government · 17 Dec 2024 Written response →
●UK Government — follow-up
Interim payments of £100,000 were made to estates of deceased infected persons and to bereaved family members according to the hierarchy specified. This was accepted in full and implemented ahead of the main compensation scheme.
UK Government · 14 May 2025 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
- 17 Dec 2024 Interim payments to bereaved families completed. Source →
- 15 Jan 2026 · IBCA Community Update As of 13 January 2026: 3,721 people asked to start claims, 3,546 begun process, 3,074 received offers totalling £2.47bn, 2,861 paid totalling £1.89bn. Third compensation regulations in force 31 December 2025. View source → Good Progress
- 31 Dec 2025 · UK Parliament Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 established IBCA. Three sets of scheme regulations in force (Aug 2024, Mar 2025, Dec 2025). First payments December 2024. £1.89bn paid to 2,861 people by January 2026. View source → Good Progress
- 28 Oct 2025 · IBCA Independent Review IBCA has contacted 2,215 people to begin compensation claims; 1,934 started process. £812m+ paid via Horizon Shortfall Scheme. £11.8bn committed in Autumn Budget. View source → Reasonable Progress
- 22 Jul 2025 · IBCA Community Update Infected Blood Compensation Authority established August 2024. First claims for deceased infected/affected opened December 2025. IBCA accepted all 11 recommendations directed to them. View source → Good Progress
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