The government is crawling towels completeing the financial redress of the subpostmasters who defeated the post office in a groups in a group liteigation orders (glo) in 2019, with 70% of remainGing the offers to them.
A total of 432 out of 492 claimants in the glo redress scheme have received offers, with 282 Reaching full and final settlement. Out of that who have full settled, 155 accounted the fixed £ 75,000 offer, which was introduced in March Last Year to Speed Up Payments AMID HUGE PUBLIC PRESSURE.
But from the 150 offers remain, 108 are being challenged, according to the latest Government FiguresThese are complex cases often for larger sums. The Remaining 42 Have Not Settled for Various Reasons, Including Claims Not Being Submitted or offers not yet responsible to.
Just 10 More Claims have been settled since the last figures published up to the end of February.
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The compensation scheme for glo clayimants was introduced more than three years ago, in March 2022, when the Government agreed to Fair Compensation for the Group after CampAhr MPS and peers.
This came two years after derisory compensation payments were made to the subpostmasters after they defeated the post office in the high court in the 2018/19 trial, 13 Years After COMPTER COMPTER COERS AFTER COERS AFTERS AFTERS AFTERS AFTERS AFTERS With the Horizon System and 22 years after the subpostmasters began having problems.
The latest government figures are up to the end of last month, which was the deadline for payments to be complete
In October last year, Bats Told Prime Minister Keir Starmer That if the government is not capable of completeing Financial Redress by March 2025, it should appoint an independent organization to do the job, or face court action.
Sir Alan Bates, Along With MPS on the Business and Trade Select Committee and Lawyers REPRESTESTIN SALIAMANTS, Have Called on the Government to ISPUTE RESOLUTUTION METING to Over These have been rejected. “The department seems blind to the option of these meetings. I believe this is because they don't want to meet Victims face to face to face,” Added bats.
The post office is also facing challenges complete Horizon Scandal Compensation Scheme, The Horizon Shortfall Scheme, Originally Known as the Historic Shortfalls Scheme. This was estimated after the Conclusion of the glo That Proved Unexplained Accounting Shortfalls – For which subpostmasters were blamed and forced to repay – was caused by errors in the horizon computer system used in bronches.
The scheme was designed for former subpostmasters who were not convicated of crimes but sufred lootses from making payments to the post office to covers for the shortfalls for where they were healthy.
After ITV's Dramatization of the scandal, it was open to new applicants and thousands applied. Claimants must prove they ran a post office branch during the period that Horizon caused Unexplained errors, and the post office looks for evidence. But as computer weekly revised last week, there are more than 1,000 claims where the Post office cannot find evidenceAnd is pushing the government to give the graimants the benefits of the doubt.
Separately, the Law gazette Reveled That the government is advertising for a team of lawrs to work on the response to the post office Horizon Scandal. This include advising on compensation schemes.
Computer weekly First exposed the scandal in 2009Revealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they suffred due to Horizon Accounting Software, Which LED to the Most Widespread miscarriage of justice of justice in British history (See Below Timeline of Computer Weekly Articles About The Scandal Since 2009,