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Respondents to the survey included those who survived the Manchester Arena bombing successful 2017
Survivors of panic attacks successful the UK person described the government's compensation strategy arsenic "broken" successful a caller report.
More than 130 survivors from 11 attacks were surveyed by enactment web Survivors Against Terror.
Respondents included survivors from the Fishmonger's Hall stabbings successful London successful 2019, and the Manchester Arena bombing successful 2017.
A authorities spokesperson said "we cognize much indispensable beryllium done" to code needs.
More than two-thirds of survey respondents said they felt the strategy was "unfair and unreasonable".
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) has been successful spot since the 1990s, and handles claims from radical who person suffered carnal oregon intelligence injuries arsenic a effect of convulsive transgression successful England, Scotland and Wales. It is sponsored by the Ministry of Justice.
More than fractional of survivors surveyed said they felt incapable to talk to idiosyncratic from CICA for assistance and immoderate 60% did not consciousness it was casual to taxable their compensation assertion - and that the accusation provided by CICA was unclear oregon not casual to understand.
Of the survivors asked, 62% did not consciousness treated with respect and empathy, compared with 17% who felt they were.
Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed successful the onslaught astatine Fishmongers Hall successful the 2019 attack
Brendan Cox, whose wife, Labour MP Jo Cox, was killed by a far-right extremist successful 2016, is simply a co-founder of Survivors Against Terror, and a co-author of the report.
He said the CICA was "broken" and "there tin beryllium nary different decision from the information and the testimonies we person gathered".
"An organisation that is expected to beryllium helping survivors retrieve and rebuild is alternatively consistently doing them harm," helium said.
"If the organisation had mediocre processes and procedures but scored good connected different areas, determination would beryllium anticipation for reform. There is not."
In 2019, the authorities committed to a caller Survivors' Charter which would warrant rights for survivors to intelligence wellness and ineligible support, thing Survivors Against Terror said has not happened.
Some survivors said they were inactive waiting for compensation years later.
One Manchester Arena onslaught subsister said: "After 5 years I americium inactive waiting for CICA to settee my claim, they mislaid each my notes."
The study calls for a caller compensation authorization to beryllium overseen by the Home Office with greater transparency successful however awards are calculated and an quality to way them online.
A authorities spokesperson said it was "right survivors get the enactment they need, including done the publicly-funded Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme that has paid retired much than £158 cardinal to victims of convulsive transgression successful the past twelvemonth alone".
They added: "But we cognize much indispensable beryllium done, which is wherefore the authorities is reviewing the enactment available, to amended code victims' needs."
It said this included £4.6 cardinal for victims of coercion since 2017.
The authorities said 836 of the 859 applications successful transportation with the Manchester Arena bombing had been finalised, with 436 of the bereaved oregon injured receiving transgression injuries compensation.
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