Q&A: What Has the Vaccine Injury Support Program Actually Delivered?

Day 3 · 7:37:18 · Dean Allison · Noah Barclay · Drew Taylor · Shawn Buckley

• ⌛ Acceptance took a year and a half of back-and-forth; initial payout was only $45 000.
• 🪜 Program claims she can climb two flights of stairs without issue—an assertion she and her lawyer are still appealing.
• 😤 Fourteen or fifteen different managers and deliberate complexity make the process nightmarish with brain fog.

MP question on real-world experience with the federal compensation scheme.

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Transcript

Dean Allison · 7:37:18

I just—.

Noah Barclay · 7:37:19

You just alluded to the vaccine injury program. Can you just expand on your experience with that?

Drew Taylor · 7:37:25

Yeah, it has been a ride. So it took a year and a half of back and forth to be accepted into the Vaccine Injury Program. The initial payout was $45,000 for me, and I have been in the appeal stage because the Vaccine Injury Program claims that I can go up a flight of stairs and two flights of stairs with no issue. That's not true. So I've been trying to appeal this with my lawyer and we still haven't gotten anywhere. This has been years and they were supposed to replace my income, which the original payout wouldn't have even replaced my income for that year as a professional massage therapist who owned her own business. So yeah, my experience is really frustrating. I think I've had about 14 or 15 different managers and it's really difficult as someone with brain fog, like even dealing with the sound system today. If I'm not used to doing something, my brain, it's It's, it's much more difficult for me to be able to do things, and they purposely make this extremely difficult.

Shawn Buckley · 7:38:29

Thank you.