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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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SECTION L: COMPENSATION SCHEMES
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
SECTION L: COMPENSATION SCHEMES
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SECTION L: COMPENSATION SCHEMES
Chapter 43: Industrial Injuries scheme
1. Who is covered by the scheme?
2. Industrial accidents
Box L.1: Accidents at work: principles of entitlement
3. Prescribed industrial diseases
4. Common law compensation
5. Industrial injuries disablement benefit
6. How do you claim?
7. How is your claim decided?
Box L.2: How is disablement assessed?
Box L.3: Prescribed degrees of disablement
8. How much do you get?
9. If your condition gets worse
10. Extra allowances
11. Reduced earnings allowance
Box L.4: For more information
12. Retirement allowance
Chapter 44: Armed Forces Compensation scheme
1. Armed Forces Compensation scheme
Box L.5: War Pensions scheme
2. Who can claim?
Box L.6: Far East prisoners of war
3. How much can you get?
4. Survivor’s benefits
5. Does anything affect what you get?
6. How do you claim?
7. Appeals
8. Extra help you can get
Box L.7: For more information
Chapter 45: Criminal injuries compensation
1. Who can claim?
2. How do you claim?
3. How much do you get?
4. How is your claim decided?
5. If you don’t agree with the decision
6. If your condition changes
Box L.8: For more information
Chapter 46: Vaccine damage payments
1. What is the Vaccine Damage scheme?
2. Who qualifies?
3. How do you claim?
4. What if you are refused?
5. Does it affect other benefits?
Chapter 47: Compensation recovery
1. Compensation recovery
2. Benefits that can be recovered
3. Exempted payments
4. Lump-sum payments
5. Challenging decisions
Box L.9: For more information
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Disability Rights UK. "SECTION L: COMPENSATION SCHEMES." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-267081CITANCHOR.
Disability Rights UK. "SECTION L: COMPENSATION SCHEMES." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-267081CITANCHOR.
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