Recommendation IR2-12: Interim Payments for Bereaved Families
From Second Interim Report, published 5 April 2023.
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).
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry recommended £100,000 interim payments to bereaved parents, children, or siblings of deceased victims. In May 2025, the UK Government stated that it had opened applications for £100,000 interim payments to the estates of deceased infected people to respect their wills, rather than paying bereaved parents, children, or siblings directly (Cabinet Office response, May 2025). In July 2026, the Infected Blood Compensation Authority reported that the Government committed under the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 to make £100,000 interim payments to estates where no compensation had been paid (Infected Blood Compensation Authority, Jul 2026).
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 5 Oct 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.
Government response
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. This approach allows for payment of substantial compensation into the hands of families of victims of infected blood, while recognising that it would not be appropriate for the Government to intervene in the wishes of a deceased person, as set out in their will. 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.
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.
What other bodies have found
In their own words. These do not change the delivery statement above.
Infected Blood Compensation Authority (30 July 2026)
The Government also committed, in the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, to make interim payments of £100,000 to the estates of those deceased infected persons where no financial compensation has been paid to date, in line with recommendation 12 of Sir Brian Langstaff’s interim report.
From: Infected Blood Interim Compensation Payment Scheme: further interim payments
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Who has spoken
- UK Government
Response - Infected Blood Compensation Authority
Finding