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26/09/2005
London bomb victims to begin receiving payments
Survivors of the London bomb attacks are to begin receiving compensation payments within the next ten days, it has been announced.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority said that it had now received around 180 applications. The CICA said that police reports had been requested to confirm that the claimant was a victims of the July 7 bomb attacks and medical reports to confirm the injuries sustained.
In a statement issued on Monday, the CICA said: “We received the first batch of police reports last Thursday and are now in a position to begin offering interim payments to victims within the next ten days.
“We are working hard to make sure that victims of these terrible bombings receive the compensation they are entitled to as quickly as possible.”
The announcement comes after some of the survivors of the four blasts, which killed 52 people, expressed concerns that they were still to receive financial compensation nearly three months after the attacks.
Speaking on the BBC’s ‘Sunday AM’ programme, Prime Minister Tony Blair had promised to investigate reports that those injured in the blasts had yet to receive compensation.
Hundreds of people were injured in the four blasts – three on Tube trains and one on a double-decker – during the morning rush hour on July 7. Many of the survivors have been expressing concerns about the financial problems they face, because of the injuries they sustained which prevented them from working.
Martine Wright, who had to have both her legs amputated following the Aldgate Tube bomb, told the ‘News of the World’ yesterday that she was worried about paying her bills. She said: “I’ve enough to worry about at the moment with learning to walk again. This is an extra burden.”
(KMcA/SP)
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority said that it had now received around 180 applications. The CICA said that police reports had been requested to confirm that the claimant was a victims of the July 7 bomb attacks and medical reports to confirm the injuries sustained.
In a statement issued on Monday, the CICA said: “We received the first batch of police reports last Thursday and are now in a position to begin offering interim payments to victims within the next ten days.
“We are working hard to make sure that victims of these terrible bombings receive the compensation they are entitled to as quickly as possible.”
The announcement comes after some of the survivors of the four blasts, which killed 52 people, expressed concerns that they were still to receive financial compensation nearly three months after the attacks.
Speaking on the BBC’s ‘Sunday AM’ programme, Prime Minister Tony Blair had promised to investigate reports that those injured in the blasts had yet to receive compensation.
Hundreds of people were injured in the four blasts – three on Tube trains and one on a double-decker – during the morning rush hour on July 7. Many of the survivors have been expressing concerns about the financial problems they face, because of the injuries they sustained which prevented them from working.
Martine Wright, who had to have both her legs amputated following the Aldgate Tube bomb, told the ‘News of the World’ yesterday that she was worried about paying her bills. She said: “I’ve enough to worry about at the moment with learning to walk again. This is an extra burden.”
(KMcA/SP)
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