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Critics of the beleaguered scheme have repeatedly called for the Home Office to be stripped of responsibility for determining and handling payments.

The compensation scheme was launched five years ago this week.

Critics of the beleaguered scheme have repeatedly called for the Home Office to be stripped of responsibility for determining and handling payments.

The compensation scheme was set up after it emerged many British citizens, mostly from the Caribbean, had been denied access to healthcare and benefits and threatened with deportation despite having the right to live in the UK.

Five years after payment scheme launched, a former soldier says delays mean plan should be run independently

Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to offer EU citizens with settled status in the UK a route to making it official with the UK

An Army veteran who faced deportation in the Windrush scandal has said that he fears the Government is “waiting for us to die off”.

Conroy Downie, 67, who lives in northwest London, wants the scheme to be run independently as he says thousands of people do not trust the government department.

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Amid growing concerns about the number of people dying before receiving payouts, there are fresh calls for an overhaul of the process.