Debate contribution: Victims’ Payments Board: Oversight
Debate contribution by Ms Paula Bradshaw on .
- MLA
- Ms Paula Bradshaw
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 5 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Victims’ Payments Board: Oversight
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5774166
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Last week, I heard from a constituent who spent two and a half hours going through the process and then had her application turned down. She is too devastated to appeal the decision. You have indicated that there have been over 16,000 applications. I think that I am right in saying that, to date, only 35% to 40% of the applications have been processed. There are a lot of people in the system, and, at the end of it, they may not get their claim through. How long do you anticipate the process taking? What support is in place for applicants who do not get the result that they are looking for?
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