Statistics and data: Vaccine Injury Support Program

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• Statistics and data from the former program
• Transition to the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program

Statistics and data from the former program

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is providing program data from the former Vaccine Injury Support Program. It was administered by a third party before April 1, 2026.

Table 1 reflects program activity under the former third-party administrator between June 1, 2021 to November 30, 2025. This was prior to the launch of the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program on April 1, 2026. PHAC will update this page to include the remaining data from December 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026 as soon as that data is available.

Table 1: Statistics from the former program, the Vaccine Injury Support Program, June 1, 2021 to November 30, 2025^{Table 1 Footnote 1}

Measure	Value
Total number of claims received	3,557
Number of claims pending administrative review for eligibility	88
Number of claims with administrative review completed	3,469
Number of claims that are inadmissible	451
Number of claims that are admissible	3,018
Number of claims in the process of collecting medical records	852
Number of claims pending Medical Review Board assessment	51
Number of claims that have been assessed by the Medical Review Board	1,433
Number of claims approved by the Medical Review Board	252
Number of appeals received	551
Number of appeals assessed by the Medical Review Board	163
Number of appeals approved by the Medical Review Board	11
Total amount of financial support paid out to claimants	$ 21,474,722
Table 1 Footnote 1 These measures and values are a snapshot in time (June 1, 2021 to November 30, 2025). Some categories may overlap, and a single claim may appear in more than one stage of the process. For this reason, the figures should not be added together. Table 1 Return to footnote 1 referrer

Transition to the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program

PHAC is updating approaches to data collection and reporting under the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program.

We'll publish updated statistics for the program in the coming months.

As part of the transition, PHAC received information from multiple data sources from the former third-party administrator, including over 350,000 documents for ongoing and completed claims under the former Vaccine Injury Support Program.

Approximately 2,000 existing applications will be reviewed and processed under the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program.

Learn more:

• If you already applied under the Vaccine Injury Support Program