What happens to your current support payments
If you get regular support payments from a support scheme, you can choose to continue getting support payments or not when you accept your IBCA compensation offer.
This choice of whether to continue receiving support scheme payments only affects the ‘care’ and ‘financial loss’ parts of your compensation.
Support scheme payments you've received from 1 April 2025
Payments you've received from a support scheme from 1 April 2025 — including any discretionary payments — are now included in IBCA's compensation calculations.
This does not include:
- payments for pre-payment prescription certificates
- grants for talking therapy
If you choose to continue with your support payments
If you continue with your support payments you’ll get both:
- your payments for the rest of your life
- your IBCA compensation, but ‘care’ and ‘financial loss’ payment will only cover past years, not future years
You will not get less than you'd get through IBCA. You'll get top-up payments to make up any difference.
Recent changes to compensation if you continue with support payments
The fourth set of regulations for the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme became law on 24 July 2026. The regulations:
- changed how IBCA pays compensation for past care
- introduced an additional calculation for past financial loss
These changes only apply to people who choose to keep receiving their support scheme payments.
If you choose to keep your support payments when you make your IBCA compensation claim, you may be entitled to more compensation for the financial loss and past care awards than you would have been previously.
If you have already been paid IBCA compensation and chose to continue your support scheme payments, you may get an increase in your compensation. We are contacting everyone this applies to. You do not have to do anything until you hear from us.
If you die before receiving the full value of your assessed future financial loss and future care as support scheme payments, your remaining compensation will be calculated up to your healthy life expectancy and paid to your estate.
Choosing to stop your support payments
If you choose to stop getting your support payments, you’ll get your full IBCA compensation as described on these pages. This includes past and future financial loss and care compensation.
The best option for you will depend on your personal situation. Your claim manager will support you so that you’re comfortable with your decision.
Responsibility for support payments is transferring to IBCA
The four Infected Blood Support Schemes (IBSS) — in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — are closing.
Responsibility for support payments will transfer to IBCA between January 2027 and March 2027.
This change affects all infected people and bereaved partners currently registered with a support scheme and receiving support payments from that scheme. Visit our IBSS transition to IBCA page for full details.
There will be no gap in your support, and you do not need to do anything. IBCA will take over your payments directly from your current scheme, and they will continue without interruption. Your usual payment date will remain the same.
IBCA will take over support scheme payments from the following dates:
- Wales Infected Blood Support Scheme: 15 January 2027
- Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme: 1 February 2027
- Infected Blood Payment Scheme for Northern Ireland: 1 February 2027
- England Infected Blood Support Scheme: 23 March 2027
Find out more
For more details about the changes, including payment dates and what to expect, visit our IBSS transition to IBCA page.