Attorney-General Elise Archer announced in Parliament on Tuesday Tasmania will sign up to the national child sexual abuse redress scheme.
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The scheme was a key recommendation in the Royal Commission’s final report on institutional responses, to be funded by government and non-government sources.
The scheme, pending federal legislation, is expected to come into effect on July 1.
Mr Archer said the state government’s contribution to the scheme is estimated to cost $70 million over 10 years with survivors eligible for payments of up to $150,000 and financial support for counselling and other support services.
She said applications would not be approved for incarcerated survivors though would be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
The Tasmanian Government had been holding out on signing up to the scheme due to having its own separate compensation scheme for victims of child-sex abuse, the $54 million Abuse in State Care compensation scheme which operated between 2003 and 2013.
There have been 2414 claims made under that scheme and 1848 payments, totaling $54.8 million with an average payment of $29,653 per individual.
The government’s decision to sign up to the national scheme received support from Labor and the Greens.
The federal government has estimated the scheme will cost $3.8 billion.