{"id":49112,"date":"2024-12-01T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/anger-after-infected-blood-compensation-put-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T04:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T04:08:00","slug":"anger-after-infected-blood-compensation-put-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=49112","title":{"rendered":"Anger after infected blood compensation put on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kim submitted paperwork on behalf of her younger brother who was infected with HIV aged 16 and died in 1998. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was told in writing that her application had been successful and her family would receive \u00a3100,000 on 7 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But on 25 November she received a follow-up letter saying the interim payment would not be made until she could provide extra documents proving she was the legal beneficiary of her brother&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just shocked that we can be treated with such contempt,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable, frankly, and I wouldn&#8217;t trust them to administer anything, let alone a scheme like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said some bereaved families had already made financial decisions based on the compensation they were expecting to receive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgk1lv3kx53o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim submitted paperwork on behalf of her younger brother who was infected with HIV aged 16&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[950,1715,2116,2058,2272,2393],"class_list":["post-49112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-anger","tag-blood","tag-compensation","tag-hold","tag-infected","tag-put"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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