Furious veterans slam ‘unacceptably low’ compensation fund for ‘cruel’ military gay ban

Veterans groups have criticised the government’s compensation fund for its pre-2000 military gay ban, branding it “unacceptably low”.

Several veterans’ charities, including the Royal British Legion, have written to prime minister Keir Starmer to demand a higher figure. 

The amount available to veterans dismissed from the forces for being gay has been capped at £50 million ($65 million). The National Audit Office has said up to 4,000 veterans are expected to be eligible, meaning the average payout would be £12,500 ($16,000), the BBC reported.

In the letter to Starmer, the charities said that amount would “not honour the service and sacrifice of a community who faced treatment that had been described as ‘a stain upon the illustrious history of the armed forces’.”

The ban, they added, had been “enforced for

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