Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said ex-miners will get a bonus of £1.5billion refund to the Mineworkers Pension Scheme but thousands of former Scottish coal board employees are set to lose out.
FURIOUS former Scottish mineworkers have been told they will miss out on a multi- billion pound pension scheme refund.
“We are looking for parity with the miners and the £3.2billion taken from it by the government paid back. Labour say they are righting a wrong but they are only righting half a wrong Some BCSSS pensioners were part of mine rescue teams sent into the pits. Others were electricians and engineers. There are 41,000 members in the BCSSS and 120,000 in the miners’ scheme.
The change will transfer about £1.5billion into pension pots of 112,000 ex coalminers and their families. It means rises of about 32 per cent – around £29 a week. Former South Lanarkshire councillor and National Coal Board worker George Greenshields, 73, has also joined the action group. The UK Government said: “The BCSSS operates in a different way to the Mineworkers Pension Scheme. We must consider them separately and are open to considering any proposals for changes the Trustees make.”
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