Debate contribution: Victims’ Payments Board: Update
Debate contribution by Mr Timothy Gaston on .
- MLA
- Mr Timothy Gaston
- Party at the time
- Traditional Unionist Voice
- Date
- 9 September 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Victims’ Payments Board: Update
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4511396
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My office has been contacted by victims who have lost loved ones and been denied a pension because they did not see the body in the aftermath of the attack. We have a situation where widows are penalised because their loved one came back to them in a closed coffin. Surely that cannot be right.
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