<p>The Windrush Compensation Scheme’s priority is to ensure people receive the maximum compensation as quickly as possible.</p><p>The time taken to allocate a claim for a substantive casework consideration has been reduced from 18 months to under 4 months. The 4-month period includes all essential eligibility checks, together with a Preliminary Assessment to make an initial payment of £10,000 wherever possible.</p><p>Information on the time taken from a claim being received to a compensation payment is not published.</p>