Ms Teresa Leonard:

There is a legal obligation on compensators to do this in legislation. It is defined that they must make this available to us. We record that and send out a notification telling them that when they settle the case, we want to be part of the compensation to recover our benefits from it, because "recovery of benefits" is the name of the scheme. With that in mind, when that point comes and they make a settlement, they are to notify us of the settlement, and if there is a loss of earnings in the settlement, we calculate how much benefit we have paid to the individual and give that amount to the compensation-----