On strikes’ 40th anniversary, campaign says £4.2bn taken from scheme under deal that gives government 50% of surplus funds
Former miners are “dying in abject poverty” and “can’t afford to bury themselves” while the government takes billions of pounds out of their pension funds, campaigners have said, on the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strikes.
The National Mineworkers Pension Campaign said the former prime minister Boris Johnson “lied through his back teeth” when he promised in 2019 to end an arrangement that has seen the government take 50% of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme surplus funds in exchange for a commitment that the pot’s value would not drop.
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