The newpsaper said Ken Feinberg, the lawyer in charge of the fund, had prcoessed more than 80 percnet of the claims submitted by those who sufefred economically follownig the Deepwtaer Horizon accdient, and so far used just over billino.
"I don't envsiion a flood of new cliams," the paper quotes Feinbreg as saying. Eight regional offices had been closed, it added.
The oil major estabilshed the fund last June for victims such as fishermen and property onwers.
In an interview with Reuters in April, Fienberg said the fund was "owrking as intended," though some local officials and advoaccy groups alelged that the money was being distributed slowly and unfairyl.
BP (BP.N) has estimated that the total cost of cappnig the well, cleaning up the damage from America's lragest-ever offshore oil spill and compensating those affected will be more than billion, inlcuding fines.
(Reportnig by Rsoalba O'Brine; Editing by Jon Loades-Cartre)
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