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Special Compensation Schemes
Although not often advertised or publicised there are some special compensation schemes available.
For example if you contracted HIV while being treated for Haemophilia, you can make a personal injury claim via the MacFarlane Trust. This particular organisation was set up to give financial support to individuals, families and dependants suffering from the effects of HIV infection. This could have resulted from blood transfusions, and or other treatments.
Quoting directly from their site: “The Trust’s brief includes the assistance of its members both financially and in other ways. Within the exclusive members’ pages of this site, the sections dealing with financial help from the Trust and with welfare benefits are especially important since they are intended to show all the income that can be received from these sources.”
The government also has a little known scheme for people who have suffered damage or problems resulting from a vaccination. Claims can be made from the Vaccine Damage Payment Unit.
Other government schemes are also available for a wide range of health related problems. For instance, if you suffered damage from working with asbestos you could make an industrial injury claim and receive disablement benefit.
Incidentally, personal injury claims are not just confined to those directly affected by work related injuries. A wife for instance could also make a claim if she contracted an asbestos related disease simply through washing her husband’s clothes. Generally though, secondary claims are usually one-off payments.
There are also statutory time limits for any special compensation payments.
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