RALEIGH, N.C. A first deadline for compensation payments to those sterilized under North Carolina's past eugenics program is looming at the end of the month and less than a third of compensation claims have been approved.

Authorities who are reviewing claims say one main reason so few claims have been approved is that a state law setting aside $10 million for the qualifying victims doesn't cover many of those who had been sterilized.

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