Criminal Injuries Compensation
(asked on 13th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications were made to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority's Hardship Fund in 2013-14; and what proportion of such applications were successful.
This question was answered on 23rd June 2014
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority received ten applications under the hardship fund in 2013-14, of which four were successful.
People who did not meet the fund's earnings criteria lodged the six remaining applications. The fund is there to support low-paid workers and four of these six people earned too much to be eligible, while the other two lost no income as a result of the injuries they sustained.