IBCA opens first claims for deceased infected and affected people today
- First 15 claims for those infected and who have died begin
- First 15 claims for affected people also start today
- This follows November’s announcement of first living infected but never compensated claims starting.
The Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) has today (Thursday 11 December 2025) opened the service to the first people in the next two groups of compensation claims, bringing in 15 people for each group initially.
Since being established last year, 3,600 living infected people who are registered with a support scheme have already been contacted to start their claim, and IBCA has offered more than £2.2 billion and paid more than £1.7 billion in compensation.
Last month, IBCA opened the service to the first 60 living infected people who have never been compensated for the harm done to them by the infected blood scandal. Now the first people in each of the next two groups can begin making their compensation claims, before the compensation service scales up further.
These first people to claim have been identified through IBCA’s register your intent service, which opened in early October. They are claims for those infected who are now deceased, and those who are affected by the infected blood scandal (for example parents, partners, siblings, children or unregistered carers of infected people).
Speaking about this next step in IBCA’s compensation process, David Foley, Interim Chief Executive Officer, said:
“We are committed to paying each and every person who is eligible, as soon as we can.
“We’ve been working with infected blood community members to create a compensation claim service that meets their needs. This next step allows us to work on more types of claims, before we then grow the service further for more people and begin processing claims for all groups in parallel.
“We’ll be prioritising claims for those who are sadly nearing the end of their lives, followed by older age groups, as recommended by the Infected Blood Inquiry.
"We recognise that the festive period can be a challenging time for many in the community. Receiving contact from IBCA may bring up difficult emotions, and we want to reassure those who have been contacted from the next groups to begin their claim that they can begin their claim at a time that’s right for them.”
Just over one year ago, IBCA opened to the first group of people to begin their claim, starting with small numbers and then growing the service with feedback from the community.
IBCA has now opened the service to some people from every group eligible to make a claim, again starting small before scaling up. The number of claims for each new group will initially be low before increasing, once the claim service is ready to widen out further. IBCA is not processing supplementary claims at this time.
Anyone who intends to make a claim with IBCA for compensation should register now with IBCA’s recently opened register your intent service. This is an online service open to all groups who intend to make a claim - please follow this link to register so we can contact each person as soon as their claim can begin.