More than 100 people were killed or disabled through complications caused by jabs given during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Under current rules people deemed to have suffered \u201csevere\u201d vaccine damage are entitled to a one-off sum of \u00a3120,000 from the Government.<\/p>\n
Since the rollout in December 2020, 6,885 claims have been received by the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. This compares to the 146 million doses given in England alone.<\/p>\n
The data, released under a Freedom of Information request, show 137 people have since been awarded a payment. Fifty of these were to relatives of someone who had died.<\/p>\n
Compensation can only be given if a government-backed medical assessor believes a person has been at least 60 per cent damaged by a vaccine \u2013 either physically or mentally.<\/p>\n
The successful claims cover those affected by jab-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis, the major complication that concerned health chiefs across the world.<\/p>\n
Others developed Guillain-Barre syndrome, which affects the nerves, heart disease or heart inflammation, vision loss, organ failure or other blood clots.<\/p>\n
Of the claims, 2,933 were either rejected or \u201cdidn\u2019t meet the government criteria for assessment\u201d. Of these, 201 were rejected because the people were not considered disabled enough.<\/p>\n
Jackie Fletcher, from vaccine damage support group Jabs, said: \u201cWe welcome these payments but the amounts are derisory for the amount of injury sustained.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Department of Health spokesman said: \u201cAll vaccines have undergone robust clinical trials and met strict standards of safety, effectiveness and quality.\u201d<\/p>\n
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