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Nearly 8,000 former miners in Scotland receive boost today after pension scandal injustice

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Nearly 8,000 former mineworkers across Scotland will today get a boost to their pension packets after a historic injustice.

Updated UK Government figures show 7,844 Scots will receive an average £29 extra to their weekly pay as part of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme.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.

It follows an unjust arrangement which allowed the UK Government to take half of their pension surplus. The uplift represents an average 32 per cent rise to the annual pensions of nearly 112,000 former mineworkers and their dependents across the UK.

Labour Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said: “This Government has kept our promise to return money rightfully owned to the ex-miners and their families - and today thousands of people will receive the money they deserve in their pension as a result.“Today marks an end to a decades-long injustice that has denied thousands across the country the decent pension that they so undeniably deserve.

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