While the first round of payments from the New Denver School survivors' compensation package went out to living survivors in August, the B.C. Attorney General's office says issuing payments to descendants of deceased survivors is going to take a while longer.
The payments are part of a $10 million compensation package first announced in February, 2023, alongside a formal apology from the B.C.
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