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The victims were afraid that they would not live to see compensation. '

The Infected blood test is to be reopened later this week in order to examine the “topicality and appropriateness” of the government's reaction to compensation.

Gary Webster, who was infected with HIV And hepatitis C when he attended the Treloar School of Lord Mayor Hampshire In the 1970s and 1980s, he believed that things “went downhill”. Your report has published since the request Last May.

Mr. Webster told PA's news agency that progress was “too slow” and that there seemed to be “a random system” to decide who receives compensation.

“We fought for so many years to get into this phase … and now they say that they hope to pay all infected people by the end of 2027 and they hope to pay those affected by the end of 2029,” he said.

“Well, there are two people a week – all you have to do is do the sums yourself to find out that many people are not paid, justice does not get and die without knowing what happened.”

“I think people are now afraid that they will only survive when they receive compensation,” added Webster.

Another former school of school, who was infected with hepatitis C, Glenn Wilkinson, last year, Sky News said that the The compensation offer was “poor”.

The hemophilia company said that the scandal had “ruined” people's lives, with compensation delays “reinforced”.

The hepatitis -c -trust hoped that the reopening of the investigation “would cause a step change in the government's attitude to the people affected by this terrible scandal”.

Between the 1970s and early 1990s, more than 30,000 people with HIV and hepatitis C were infected in Great Britain during reception Nhs Care.

Around 3,000 people died after they received contaminated blood and blood products while survivors live with lifelong effects.

“Uneasy for progress”

In the budget of the last October, Chancellor Rachel Reeves Get 11.8 billion GBP to compensate the victims of the infected blood scandal.

The remuneration system is administered by the infected blood compensation authority (IBCA), which invited 475 people from April 24 from April 24, and, according to its figures, 77 payments of more than 78 million GBP.

During the recent hearings of the investigation and Nick Thomas Symonds, activists who said last month said that he said in the past month that he was “uneasy for progress” when handing over compensation.

Sir Brian Langstaff, the chairman of the investigation, said that the victims and families of the affected people were desperate and powerless and both infected and those affected by the government's approach and “have no time on their side”.

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An IBCA spokesman said that his priority was “as soon as possible as possible” and that it used what it had learned to “increase the number of claims per week”.

A government spokesman said that he was “fully for cooperation with the investigation” and is working on “delivering one of the most comprehensive remuneration systems in modern history”.

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