People with Covid vaccine injuries not getting help they need, inquiry hears
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Vaccine damage payment scheme ‘inadequate and inefficient,’ says Vaccine Injured spokesperson. People who were severely harmed by Covid vaccines faced an “inadequate and inefficient” process for obtaining a government payout, with many rejected and others waiting years for a decision, the Covid inquiry has heard.
The vaccine damage payment scheme offers a one-off sum of £120,000 to people who have such serious adverse reactions to the vaccines that they are at least 60% disabled. But people affected by vaccine injuries told the inquiry they did not get the help and financial support they deserved.
“The scheme is inadequate and inefficient. It offers too little, too late, to too few,” said Kate Scott from Vaccine Injured and Bereaved UK. “There should be a fair compensation scheme, and the government should have planned for that, knowing that if nothing is 100% safe and effective and it’s being rolled out to so many people, there would be injuries and there would be deaths.”.
Scott’s husband, Jamie, developed a rare blood clot in the brain after having the AstraZeneca Covid jab. He survived despite being in a coma for a month, but is now partially blind and has cognitive problems that Scott said would prevent him from ever working again.
While Jamie received a vaccine damage payment, Scott said the amount was insufficient for many people. Some in the group were using food banks and had moved homes. “That’s just extra trauma to what we’re already struggling through,” she told the inquiry.
