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Some coal miners are still awaiting compensation
Ex-miners still waiting for compensation

The government’s compensation scheme for coal miners suffering poor health cost more than £1 in administration for every £2 paid out, it has emerged. MPs reveal the findings in the public accounts committee’s report on the coal health compensation scheme, begun by the then-Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 1998. Since courts ruled the… Read more »