# Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/947327>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [July 26, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/947327 "2021-07-26T12:42:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/947327/1 "2021-07-26T12:42:20Z")

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So there’s a petition floating around to update this for COVID. Is it a real thing? If so, I hope it’s pretty stringent otherwise the usual suspects are going to use it as fuel for the fire.

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**Author:** ![Chatterbox1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@Chatterbox1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chatterbox1)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/947327/2 "2021-07-26T12:56:24Z")

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As far as I can tell, they update it for every government recommended vaccine and already did so for covid.

> **[Government to add COVID-19 to Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-add-covid-19-to-vaccine-damage-payments-scheme)**
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> The government is taking this precautionary step in advance of a rollout of an authorised COVID-19 vaccine and in line with other immunisation programmes.

That’s from last December, so not sure what any petition could be about.

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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/947327/3 "2021-07-26T12:58:21Z")

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Sorry, I meant to add a link to the thing itself. [Reform the VDPA 1979 to improve support for those harmed by covid-19 vaccines - Petitions](https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/587380)

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**Author:** ![Chatterbox1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@Chatterbox1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chatterbox1)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/947327/4 "2021-07-26T13:01:56Z")

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My link mentions it as a one time tax free payment of £120,000 if you’ve been seriously injured by a vaccine. Your petition seems to merely want to raise that compensation (and make it more “accessible” whatever that means.) I doubt this will go anywhere.