AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
The Catholic church has doubled the maximum compensation payment to people sexually abused as children by clergy in the Melbourne archdiocese to $150,000.
Abuse survivors who have already received payments under the Melbourne Response can have their cases reviewed to determine if they are eligible for additional compensation.
The doubling of the compensation cap from 1 January 2017 puts it in line with the maximum payment under the federal government’s redress scheme starting in 2018.
On Friday Melbourne archbishop Denis Hart said the archdiocese was committed to a fair system of redress.
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