# The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2025, Regulation 11: Amendments relating to support scheme payments for recently bereaved partners


(1) In regulation 59, after paragraph (4) insert—
“(4A) For the purposes of this Part, an IBSS-registered affected person (“A”) is in a recent bereavement period during the 12-month period beginning with the calendar month after the month in which the person in respect of whom A is an IBSS-registered affected person died.”.
(2) In regulation 60—
(a) in paragraph (4)(a)—
(i) in paragraph (ii), after “where E is an IBSS-registered affected person” insert “who is, on the IBSS transfer date, not in a recent bereavement period”;
(ii) after paragraph (ii) insert—
“(iii) where E is an IBSS-registered affected person who is, on the IBSS transfer date, in a recent bereavement period, the amount determined in accordance with paragraph (4A).”;
(b) after paragraph (4) insert—
“(4A) Where E is an IBSS-registered affected person who is, on the IBSS transfer date, in a recent bereavement period, the IBSS category amount is the sum of—
(a) (B ÷ 12) × M, where—
(i) “B” is the amount specified in column 3 of the table in regulation 62 for the IBSS payment category which applied on 31st March 2025 to the person (“A”) in relation to whom E is an IBSS-registered affected person or would have applied to A on that date;
(ii) “M” is the number of months during the IBSS transfer year during which E is in a recent bereavement period, and
(b) ((B ÷ 12) × 0.75) × N, where—
(i) “B” has the meaning given in sub-paragraph (a)(i);
(ii) “N” is the number of months during the IBSS transfer year in which E is not in a recent bereavement period.”.
(3) In regulation 63 (the IBSS amount: IBSS-registered affected persons)—
(a) in paragraph (1), for “paragraph (3)” substitute “paragraphs (2A) and (3)”;
(b) after paragraph (2) insert—
“(2A) Subject to paragraph (3), where, at the beginning of a year during the Part 5 period other than the IBSS transfer year, A is in a recent bereavement period, the IBSS amount is the sum of—
(a) (B ÷ 12) × M, where—
(i) “B” is A’s relevant IBSS category amount;
(ii) “M” is the number of months during the year during which E is in a recent bereavement period, and
(b) ((B ÷ 12) × 0.75) × N, where—
(i) “B” is A’s relevant IBSS category amount;
(ii) “N” is the number of months during the year during which E is not in a recent bereavement period.”;
(c) in paragraph (3), in the closing words, after “paragraph (1)” insert “or (2A)”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348276077/regulation/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-11
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