What the government did with the miners pension fund was and still is a huge scandal, the government still feeds of the excess funds and the miners pay for it.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pension-rip-leaves-retired-mineworkers-28702309
Pension rip-off leaves retired mineworkers unable to afford family funerals
Welsh ex-miner Emlyn Davies, 77, could not scrape together the £2,900 needed to bury his wife and lives with his daughter because he only receives £61 a week after 26 years down the pits
The Tories are refusing to use £1bn of investment windfalls to boost miners' pension funds(Getty Images)
By Nigel Nelson
18:00, 10 Dec 2022