Kennedy announces plan to reform Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that he is working with the Justice Department to overhaul a national program that compensates people injured by vaccination.

Kennedy, a longtime critic of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, wrote on X that he would “fix” the VICP process, which he says “has devolved into a morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption.”

Congress established the VICP in the 1980s as a route for people who have rare but serious side effects from vaccinations to receive compensation from pharmaceutical companies, without those manufacturers being found negligent.