# The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2025, Regulation 48: Applications for affected core payments


(1) An application for an affected core payment must be made by—
(a) the end of 31st March 2031, or
(b) if later, the end of the period of 6 years beginning with the day on which B was diagnosed with an infection specified in regulation 3(3).
(2) In this regulation—
(a) “A” is the person in respect of whom an affected core application is made;
(b) “B” is the person in relation to whom the application seeks to establish that A is an eligible affected person.
(3) If the IBCA has determined pursuant to a previous affected core application that A is an eligible affected person in relation to B, no further affected core application may be made seeking to establish that A is an eligible affected person in relation to B.
(4) An application for an affected core payment must be accompanied by evidence which establishes—
(a) that B is an eligible infected person,
(b) B’s first year of infection,
(c) if B is deceased on the date of the application, the date of B’s death,
(d) that A is—
(i) a partner of B,
(ii) a parent of B,
(iii) a child of B,
(iv) a sibling of B, or
(v) an unremunerated carer of B, and
(e) where the application seeks to establish that A is an unremunerated carer of B—
(i) the average number of hours per week that A provided care or support to B,
(ii) the nature of such care or support,
(iii) that the care or support was first provided on a date which fell in or after B’s first year of infection, and
(iv) the length of time that such care or support was provided.
(5) The application need not be accompanied by evidence establishing the matters described in paragraph (4) if—
(a) the application seeks to establish that A is a partner of B, and
(b) A is receiving support scheme payments as a bereaved partner of B.
(6) The evidence that may be used to establish the matters described in paragraph (4) is documentary evidence which is contemporaneous with the matter it purports to establish, such as—
(a) a marriage certificate or a civil partnership certificate;
(b) a birth certificate or an adoption certificate;
(c) a council tax statement;
(d) a bank statement;
(e) a document relating to—
(i) the ownership or rental of any property where A and B cohabited;
(ii) insurance;
(iii) tax;
(iv) employment;
(v) medical information;
(vi) child benefit entitlement;
(vii) schools attended by A or B.
(7) Where the application is accompanied by contemporaneous documentary evidence which purports to establish a matter described in paragraph (4) but which the IBCA does not consider is sufficient to establish that matter, the matter may be established by the contemporaneous documentary evidence together with written evidence provided by or on behalf of A.
(8) Where a matter described in paragraph (4) is not established by any contemporaneous documentary evidence which accompanies the application and the IBCA considers that it is impracticable for that matter to be established by contemporaneous documentary evidence, the matter may be established by—
(a) written evidence provided by or on behalf of A, together with
(b) written evidence provided by or on behalf of a person that the IBCA considers is sufficiently independent of A.
(9) For the purposes of paragraph (8)(b), a person is not sufficiently independent of A if (among any other matters the IBCA considers relevant)—
(a) the person has a family relationship to A, or
(b) the person otherwise has a pecuniary interest in A’s affected core application.
(10) For the purposes of this regulation, written evidence must include a statement verifying that the person providing the written evidence believes that the matters stated as fact in the written evidence are true.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268843/regulation/48 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-48
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