Debt restructurings often entail conflicts among different claimants.

This is relevant to the issue of streaming of claimants.

Others stated that claimants contacted them through word of mouth.

None of the claimants in this instalment fall into Stream 3.

Priority of the security right over the rights of competing claimants

The Panel reviewed the statistical data indicating that these claimants claimed more frequently for business losses and for substantially higher amounts than claimants in the regular category D claims programme.

Claim preparers often attended interviews with claimants and frequently acted as interpreters.

Both claimants claimed for their respective share of the joint venture's losses only.

Accordingly, the Panel finds that these claimants should be placed in Stream 1.

Claimants who provided accounts from this auditor were unable to provide contact details.

Only claimants who have provided actual Iraqi dinar banknotes have potentially compensable claims.

Stream 3 comprises claimants who operated their businesses principally outside Kuwait or Iraq.

Having reviewed the claimants' responses to the notifications, the Panel noted that the claimants failed to provide the requested original copies of certain documents and did not provide a satisfactory explanation for this failure.

Subsidiary claimants should similarly be recognized, including resident family members at the time of displacement, spouses, domestic partners, dependents, legal heirs and others who should be entitled to claim on the same basis as primary claimants.

For example, some claimants inserted their names on invoices that were not issued to them.

At the direction of the Panel, interviews were scheduled with the majority of these claimants.

The Panel finds that such sharing of evidence seriously undermines the credibility of these claimants.

In some cases, claimants made contradictory statements during their interviews or contradicted earlier written statements.

All of the competing claimants were interviewed during the technical missions to Kuwait and Jordan.

Iraq contends that the methodologies that have been used by the Claimants are not acceptable.

The Panel recalls that in its Sixth Instalment Report it identified three streams of claimants in order to address the varying circumstances of claimants, in particular the quality and quantity of business records available to support individual claims.

The Panel notes that a number of these claimants did not appear for interview, while those who did appear were unable to explain why the remaining evidence on their claim files was virtually identical to that of other claimants.

States should also consider establishing mobile units in order to ensure accessibility to all potential claimants.

Other claimants backdated post invasion documents to make them appear to have been created pre invasion.

At times the claim preparers appeared to be more familiar with the claims than the claimants.

As a starting point, the Panel requires claimants to submit the Iraqi dinars to the Commission.

Where necessary and appropriate, the Panel requested additional information from the Claimants to clarify their claims.

In relation to the claims reviewed in the fifth F4 instalment, the evidence presented to the Panel does not indicate that any profit or other benefit accrued to any of the Claimants in connection with the events or damage in respect of which the claims for compensation have been submitted.

Four individual claimants that were identified as overlapping with four E4 claimants assert new or greater losses in respect of E4 claims and have provided evidence that reduced the risk of overstatement arising from evidentiary shortcomings in the E4 claims.

Retirement benefit

Widow's benefit

There were only 7,000 widowers receiving survivors' benefit half of them receiving the regular benefit and the other half, the combined benefit.

In that report, the three claimants in question were reported as having met the threshold eligibility requirement.

At the end of 2002, 166,000 widows received survivors' benefit 95,000 received this benefit alone and another 71,000 were given the combined benefit.

Deferred retirement benefit

National Child Benefit

If left unchecked, China may use the South China Sea disputes to gain effective hegemony over weaker claimants.

These errors affected the outcomes for the claimants and it is, therefore, recommended that these errors be corrected.

In many instances, the Panel found that the supporting documents provided by claimants have been altered or fabricated.

Representatives and experts of each of the Claimants and Iraq attended the oral proceedings and presented their views.

In some cases, Claimants proposed amendments which were not based on information obtained from monitoring and assessment activities.

For their part, the Claimants concerned assert that they are entitled to submit claims for public health losses.

Introduction In reviewing the measures proposed by claimants to compensate for depletion of or damage to natural resources, the Panel found that some modifications in the design, methodologies and the nature and extent of the compensatory measures to be undertaken would improve the net environmental benefit and reduce the cost of some of the measures.

The Commission then advised these individual claimants to resubmit their claims for business losses on category D claim forms.

The Panel found that these documents contained obvious alterations and were very similar to documents provided by other claimants.