{"id":21633,"date":"2022-12-07T13:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/new-compensation-for-victims-of-uk-postal-service-it-scandal-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:20:33","slug":"new-compensation-for-victims-of-uk-postal-service-it-scandal-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/new-compensation-for-victims-of-uk-postal-service-it-scandal-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"New compensation for victims of UK postal service IT scandal \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The British government has announced a fresh scheme to compensate victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, which saw sub-postmasters wrongfully prosecuted for theft, false accounting and fraud because of errors in a Fujitsu-built finance system.<\/p>\n

The new scheme is set to be delivered directly by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), with independent claims facilitators following an alternative dispute resolution model, providing a means for parties to settle cases without the cost or time required to go to court. The government said it devised the scheme following an \u201cextensive consultation\u201d with postmasters.<\/p>\n

The Post Office Horizon saga is one of the biggest scandals to hit public-sector IT management in the UK in the last 20 years and has been subject to a BBC Panorama investigation, with journalist Nick Wallis revealing evidence of the extent of the cover-up.<\/p>\n

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