Windrush Only One In Four Applicants Has Received Compensation Windrush Scandal
Less than 7% of the 15,000 compensation claims originally expected by the government have been paid. In anticipation of Windrush Day on Wednesday, applicants continued to report long delays and high levels of skepticism from officials handling their applications. Cuthbert Prospere, 59, who arrived in the United Kingdom from St. Lucia as a four-year-old in 1967, failed to convince compensation workers that he had lost his job as a caretaker at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Trafalgar Square, London....