Between 1997 and 2005, the government of the United Kingdom paid £3.5m, in 35 payments of £100,000 each, to patients who were left disabled by vaccinations.
[3] An FOI (Freedom of Information application) to The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was made in 2019.
The claimant may also qualify if they have been in close physical contact with someone who had an oral vaccine against poliomyelitis.
The vaccination must have been administered in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, or as part of Armed Forces medical treatment.
In 2018, the Department of Health and Social Care conceded that the age restriction wrongly excluded adults from the programme.