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With the deadline for survivors of the Sixties Scoop to file compensation claims passing on Aug. 30, the federal NDP is calling on Ottawa to grant an extension.

NDP Indigenous Services critic Georgina Jolibois issued a statement over the weekend saying the deadline was too tight for many people who may be eligible for compensation.

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“The settlement for the ’60s Scoop has not been working for Survivors and their families,” Jolibois wrote. “There are First Nations people who don’t know about the settlement, have difficulty filling out the forms, and who are being delayed by bureaucracy.”

Under the settlement reached with the federal government, survivors could each receive between $25,000 and $50,000 in compensation for loss of cultural identity, depending on the overall number of eligible people. The settlement includes registered Indian and Inuit people, as well as people eligible to be registered Indians, who were made permanent wards and placed with non-Indigenous foster or adoptive parents in the years 1951 to 1991.