Boy Scouts’ Sex Abuse Survivors Must Wait as Trust Goes Active

Thousands of former Boy Scouts poised to be compensated for sex abuse they suffered as children are likely to be waiting for months, or even years, to collect from a $2.4 billion bankruptcy settlement plan.

The Boy Scouts of America recently announced that its sex abuse settlement—the largest in US history—went into effect following the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s refusal to pause the 113-year-old youth organization’s bankruptcy plan. But payments aren’t making their way to abuse survivors just yet.

The process of transferring that amount of money to a victims’ trust and administering 82,000 claims, using ...