Falsely convicted postal workers must be ‘fully compensated’, says committee

MPs raise concerns over lengthy amount of time taken for payout to wrongly accused former Post Office workers

The Post Office and the government need to speed upcompensation payments to workers who were victims of the Horizon IT scandal, according to a report by an influential group of MPs.

MPs from parliament’s Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee have expressed concerns about the time taken to make settlements to former Post Office operators who were wrongfully convicted as a result of errors in the company’s computer accounting system.

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