Recommendation IBI-A-9a: Bereaved Partner Support Scheme
From Additional Report on Compensation, published 9 July 2025.
Recommendation
The IBSS cut-off date of 31 March 2025 be reviewed, that the scheme should as soon as possible reinstate support payments to partners bereaved after 31 March 2025 until such time as they receive compensation and that they should have a continuation of those payments as an option in their compensation package.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry recommended reinstating support payments for partners bereaved after 31 March 2025. In July 2025, the Cabinet Office stated that the government accepted the recommendation, allowing partners bereaved after 1 April 2025 whose partner had not received compensation while alive to join an Infected Blood Support Scheme (IBSS) (Cabinet Office response, Jul 2025). The department confirmed that these partners would receive support scheme payments until receiving compensation, with the option to continue receiving them for life (Cabinet Office response, Jul 2025). The record holds nothing dated later than the response of July 2025 (Cabinet Office response, Jul 2025).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 2 Oct 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.
Government response
In his oral evidence to the Inquiry, the Minister for the Cabinet Office agreed to look again at the 31 March 2025 'cut-off' date for bereaved partners to join an Infected Blood Support Scheme. The Government has accepted the Inquiry's recommendation that partners bereaved after 1 April 2025 whose partner has not already received compensation from the scheme while alive should be able to join an Infected Blood Support Scheme and get Support Scheme payments until they receive their own compensation payment. They will continue to receive Support Scheme payments for life, should they choose to do so.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from UK Government has been found in the sources searched (last checked 11 June 2026). This is separate from the response above.
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- UK Government
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