How your compensation is worked out
As with compensation for someone who is infected, compensation for someone who is affected will be made up of categories called ‘awards’. Each award recognises a different part of your life where infected blood has had an impact. You’ll receive a compensation amount for each award that applies to you.
Not everyone will be able to get all these categories of compensation. We’ll explain who can receive each category on these pages.
If an affected person dies after accepting a compensation offer but before receiving all of it, their estate will get the remaining amount as a single lump sum payment. If they die after applying but before receiving a compensation offer, their estate won't be able to continue the application.
Injury
Recognises the emotional or psychological harm caused by your relationship to the infected person.
Social impact
Recognises the stigma, isolation or family disruption this has caused to your social or emotional life.
Autonomy
Recognises your loss of independence or ability to make certain choices about your life. Partners, and some parents and children, are eligible for this compensation.
Financial loss
Compensation if you lost income because you were financially dependent on an infected person who has died. Bereaved partners and bereaved children under the age of 18 are eligible for this compensation through the core route for affected people. Other affected people might be eligible for a supplementary financial loss award if they can provide evidence that they were financially dependent on the deceased infected person.
There is no ‘care’ award for someone who is affected
The ‘care’ category that’s part of an infected person’s compensation is not part of compensation for someone who is affected. If you cared for someone who was infected, they can choose to pay you from their own compensation as part of the process of considering and then accepting their own compensation offer. You would receive this as part of your own compensation award.
You can make your own claim for compensation as a carer of someone who is infected.
If the infected person had acute Hepatitis C
Acute Hepatitis C doesn’t usually lead to serious or long-term effects for the infected person. Partners, parents, children, siblings and carers will not receive compensation if the person had this infection on its own.