AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
AAP
Abuse survivors have reacted angrily to a Salvation Army decision to top up less than a quarter of compensation claims for South Australian abuse victims.
The Salvation Army Southern Territory revisited payouts to hundreds of people who were brutally abused in Salvo homes in Adelaide between 1940 and 1990.
The review followed a child abuse royal commission hearing last October, which found the SAST’s approach to redress was legalistic and at times uncaring.
Floyd Tidd, the army’s territorial commander in South Australia committed to a review of the claims during the commission hearing.
He announced on Wednesday the review was completed and 73 of 422 claims had been identified as warranting a top-up payment because victims may not have been “treated fairly and consistently relative to the bulk of other settled claims”.
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