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DIAL Doncaster, Unit 9, Shaw Wood Business Park, Shaw Wood Way, Doncaster, DN2 5TB
Vaccine Damage Payments Unit

Palatine House
Lancaster Road
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 1HB

Tel: 01772 899 944
Textphone: 01772 899 489
E-mail: cau-vdpu@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
Website: www.direct.gov.uk

Description:
Government scheme which gives advice and help on compensation for children injured by immunisation.

Aims:
To offer advice on compensation for children injured by immunisation.

Activities:
People who are severly disabled due to a vaccination against specific diseases may be able to claim a one-off tax-free Vaccine Damage Payment of £100,000.00
To qualify for a Vaccine Damage Payment, the claiment must be at least 60% mentally or physically disabled due to a vaccination against:

  • Diptheria.
  • Tetanus.
  • Pertussis (whooping cough).
  • Poliomyelitis.
  • Measles.
  • Rubella (German measles).
  • Mumps.
  • Tuberculosis.
  • Meningococcal Group C (meningitis C).
  • Haemophilus influenzae type B (hib).
  • Smallpox (vaccination upto August 1971).

Claiments may have had a combination vaccination against a number of the diseases listed, for example DTP (diptheria, tetanus and pertussis) or MMR (measles, mumps and rubella).
Claiments may also be able to get a payment if they are though to be severely disabled because either:

  • Their mother was vaccinated against one of the diseases in the list while she was pregnant.
  • They have been in close physical contact with someone who's been vaccinated against poliomyelitis with a vaccine that was given orally.

When claiming on behalf of a child, claiments must wait until they're at least two years old before claiming.
The claim must be made by the later of the following dates:

  • The disabled person's 21st birthday (or if they die, the date on which they would have turned 21).
  • Within six years of the date the vaccination took place.

Updated 11/04/07

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Whilst all the information given in this document was correct at the time of going to press, DIAL Doncaster cannot be held responsible for any subsequent changes.

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