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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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