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Johnson challenged to visit former mining villages and repeat his coal pit closures joke

Johnson challenged to visit former mining villages and repeat his coal pit closures joke
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A slap in the face for ex-miners

× GOVERNMENT ministers have rejected proposals to supply an immediate £1.2bn cash boost to thousands of ex-miners involved in a controversial pension scheme - saying they believe arrangements are ‘fair and beneficial’. The response to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Select Committee inquiry into the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme (MPS) has been called a ‘slap in the face’ to those who toiled down the pits and their families. The inquiry and report were heavily critical of the government’s actions in claiming at least £4bn from a pension pot for former miners, many of whom live with long-term illness and disabilities.

Islwyn MP calls for Mineworkers Pension Scheme change

Unterground in Big Pit, one of John Cornwell s mining photographs. ISLWYN MP Chris Evans has joined calls for the UK Government to fix the ‘broken Mineworkers Pension Scheme’. More than half of the 152,000 retired miners on the Mineworkers Pension Scheme receive less than £84 a week, with the UK Government receiving billions of pounds, which many argue should have gone to the miners. Since 1994, the government has gained more than £4.4 billion from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme, after an arrangement was agreed that 50 per cent of any surplus in the scheme at its privatisation would go to members pensions, while the other 50 per cent was put in an investment reserve, to be called on should a deficit arise.

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