UK - Thousands of retired coal miners and miners' widows are lobbying the government to use a £5bn pension fund surplus to boost their benefits.
The surplus was generated for the government-run coal pension scheme which was closed to new members when the coal industry was privatised in 1994. When the scheme was active the government agre...
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