Wave of new applications could slow down payments, MPs told
The Post Office revealed that it has had another 1,000 claims for compensation since ITV's series on the Horizon scandal.
"The closure was potentially looming until the excellent ITV series when we've had over 1,000 new claims in, which I think is fantastic by the way, because my job is to pay out fair compensation," Simon Recaldin, remediation matters director at the Post Office, told MPs on the Business and Trade Committee.
He said this now makes it more difficult to figure out when the compensation programme will be completed. "For you to now ask me to put a timescale on that is going to be challenging because I'd already dealt with 2,500 claims and I'd made the offers for 2,500 claims, and we were going through the process of resolving any disputes in that," he said.
"Therefore, I had a trajectory for those towards the end of this year and March next year to close all those down. Now, with another 1,000 cases in there, I have to reassess that plan in terms of how I deliver those."