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CLAIMS FOR MINERS'
KNEE
April 2009
Last Sunday dinner-time
I went for a pint with my dad Bill, a former miner, to Grimethorpe
Working Men's Club.
I was button-holed by a
number of former miners in the club who informed me that they had been
approached by representatives of a firm of Cardiff solicitors touting
for business to represent miners in putting in a claim for the recently
announced compensation scheme for the condition known as Miners Knee.
I would like
to inform my constituents and other former miners that they do not need
to use any solicitors to claim this benefit. The Department for Works
and Pensions can provide any assistance they require in the completion
of forms and it will not cost them anything to claim the benefit.
Former
miners seeking further detailed information should contact
Jobcentreplus,
Castleford IIDB Centre, Leodis Way, Leeds LS88 8AQ. Telephone 0845 758
5433, Textphone 01977 464144.
The new benefit will not
come in until later this summer
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