TRC Final Report

Volume 5

Chapter 5

Subsection 6

■ URGENT INTERIM REPARATION

54 Urgent Interim Reparation is the delivery of reparative measures to victims who are in urgent need. During the life of the Commission, urgent interim reparation was granted to certain victims. It was further recommended that all applicants be considered for this grant while awaiting final reparation.

Benefits

55 It was recommended that beneficiaries be entitled to the following:

a Information about and or referral to appropriate services (government, non-government and/or private sector), depending on type of need.

b Financial assistance in order to access and/or pay for services deemed necessary to meet specifically identified urgent needs. Payment will be based on a sliding scale according to number of dependants and need. Thus:

■ NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN NEED

Intervention categories and eligibility criteria

56 Victims or their relatives and dependants who have urgent medical, emotional, educational, material and/or symbolic needs will be entitled to urgent interim reparations.

57 Urgency will be determined in each of the above categories using a detailed set of criteria available to the Committee and the proposed government implementing structure.