Post Office IT scandal victims may be disqualified from compensation scheme

At least 170 wrongly accused branch managers told they may not be repaid because they missed deadline

Scores of post office operators wrongly accused of embezzlement by the Post Office due to faulty accounting software, may be disqualified from a dedicated compensation scheme.

At least 170 branch managers have been told that they may not be repaid money wrongly deducted from their wages in what has been described as the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history" because they were unaware of the scheme, which was launched for just three months during the 2020 lockdown.