Summary of Compensation Sought, Awarded and Paid by Claim Category

In the execution of its mandate, the Commission made payments to claimants in the various categories of claims over a number of years. The table below gives a snapshot of the compensation sought, awarded, and paid by category of claim.

Sub- Category	Number of claims submitted	Compensation sought (US$)	Number of claims awarded compensation ¹	Compensation awarded (US$) ¹	Percentage of awarded amount against claimed amount	Net compensation paid (US$) ²	Outstanding award amounts (US$)
A	923,158	3,455,092,500	852,499	3,149,692,000	91.16	3,115,269,873	0
B	5,734	20,100,000	3,935	13,435,000	66.84	13,374,888	0
C	1,738,237	11,503,877,999	672,452 ^3, ⁴	5,185,716,912	45.08	5,177,884,637	0
D	11,915	16,539,501,201	10,343	3,348,902,861	20.25	3,346,306,483	0
E1	105	44,740,422,417	67	21,522,047,546	48.1	21,519,116,513	0
E2	2,445	13,661,076,541	954	916,054,517	6.71	915,480,192	0
E3	398	8,538,543,367	159	402,562,327	4.71	402,563,804	0
E4	3,623	11,796,336,671	2,868	3,456,889,662	29.3	3,457,054,041	0
E/F	123	6,148,493,927	57	311,282,668	5.06	311,282,668	0
F1	100	18,902,591,737	70	291,171,423	1.54	291,171,423	0
F2	63	18,417,163,597	46	264,422,123	1.44	264,099,732	0
F3	62	113,905,394,877	60	8,259,433,226	7.25	8,259,433,226	0
F4	168	84,904,244,069	109	5,261,746,450	6.2	5,260,112,735	0
Total	2,686,131	352,532,838,903	1,543,619	52,383,356,715	14.86%	52,333,150,214⁵	0

¹ Figures include corrections to awards pursuant to article 41 of the Provisional rules for claims procedure.
² Figures represent amounts made available and paid to the claimant Governments and submitting entities but are net of all paid but undistributed funds returned to the Commission.
³ Including one consolidated claim filed by the Central Bank of the Government of Egypt on behalf of 915,527 of its nationals with approximately 1,240,000 claims (the Egyptian Workers’ Claims), with a total asserted value of US$491,098,538. The claim was awarded US$84,393,992 in respect of 223,817 claims.
⁴ Including 31,868 individual claims from “bedouns” for a fixed amount of US$2,500 each, submitted to the Commission by the Government of the State of Kuwait in accordance with the special programme established by the Governing Council at its fifty-second session in June 2004.
⁵ This figure does not include a net amount of US$50.2 million no longer payable to the claimant Governments and other submitting entities mainly because the claimants were not located by the deadline of 30 September 2006 set by the Governing Council for the location of claimants and the submission of request for the payments.

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Summary of Compensation Sought, Awarded and Paid by Claim Category

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