EXCLUSIVE; The UK Government will pay out £200k each week to the former Scots miners, amounting to £10.4m each year.
Some 7,000 former Scottish miners will receive over £10 million a year after the Labour Government announced it was ending the pensions scandal. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her Budget that the £1.5 billion mineworkers’ pension fund would be handed over in its entirety to ex-miners and their families.
The UK Government will pay out £200k each week to the former Scots miners, amounting to £10.4m each year. Scotland Office minister and MP for the mining community of Midlothian, Kirsty McNeill said the money was "back where it belongs". “Campaigners have spent years fighting for pensions justice and I am delighted this Labour government set about delivering this change as soon as we were elected. Almost 7,000 retired miners in Scotland will see their pension jump by £1,500 on average. That will make a real difference to so many people in Midlothian and across Scotland's proud mining communities.”
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