Compensation as Lump Sum Payment
HIA Inquiry · Report of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry · Issued 20 January 2017 · Addressed to: Northern Ireland Executive
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
We therefore recommend that compensation should take the form of a lump sum payment.
HIA Inquiry, Report of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry · 20 Jan 2017 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- The HIA Redress Board has been making lump sum payments to applicants since it opened on 31 March 2020 (HIA Redress Board, March 2020).
Response — verbatim from government
●Northern Ireland Executive
No formal government response published.
Northern Ireland Executive · 5 Nov 2019 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
- 5 Nov 2019 The Historical Institutional Abuse (Northern Ireland) Act 2019 established that compensation payments for survivors would take the form of lump sums, as recommended by the Inquiry. Source →
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