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The Kenneth Feinberg Group has completed its administration of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program.  Since the opening of the fund in 2019, the fund administrators have awarded more than $19 million to victims/survivors in 224 cases that occurred over many decades, with the vast majority prior to 1990.

January 22, 2019: The voluntary Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program (IRCP) for victim-survivors of clergy sexual abuse that the Diocese of Pittsburgh established last month goes live today.

November 8, 2018: The Diocese of Pittsburgh is establishing an independently administered survivors’ compensation program to aid those who suffered abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy.