Jul/090
Job Centre Plus Miners Knee
Tell us which solicitor you used dealt with previously for your miners claims and we will contact you right back with details of how you can make a claim for Osteoarthritis (Miners Knee), if your previous miners claim was wrongly undersettled, and anything else you could be entitled to. You do not even need to have made a claim previously to be entitled to receive compensation.
Coal miners in the UK who worked in atrocious conditions in the late 70’s and 80’s should receive more compensation. It was reported earlier this month that coal miners with 10 or more years service can claim Industrial Disablement Benefit if they are one or more of a range of medical conditions affecting their quality of life. Conditions such as: Miners Knee, Osteoarthritis of the knee and Vibration White Finger are all included in the criteria for claiming this new benefit.
Job Centre Plus Miners Knee claims are set to go through the roof - and rightly so. Local experts in mining hotspots from times-gone-by are predicting that news of this new beneifit will spread like wild fire through the mining communities and the criteria for claiming should be met by the vast majority given that mining was a lifetime career for most.
On top of this, compensation for the new medical conditions which are now being linked back to the work conditions should be increased or at least separated from previous claims for VWF or anything else. On top of the basic right to claim, the fact that miners were receiving less compensation for their earlier claims due to fraudulent solicitors taking part of that compensation. Now, the Job Centre Plus are emphasising that all ex miners should use them to ‘apply’ rather than ‘make’ a claim.
 |
 |
