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D1920 - National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area - 1867-2015
- 2 - Area Compensation Department - 1906-1997
  - 1 - Local Appeal Tribunals - 1948-1985
    - 41 - Local Appeal Tribunals 1976 A-Z - 1976

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D1920/2/1/41/30
Title	Local Appeal Tribunal case file for Edwin Millership, aged 64, Miner at Warsop Main
Date	1976
Description	Date of birth: 15/12/1912 Marital status: Married Address: 170 West Street, Warsop Vale Type of benefit claimed: Invalidity benefit Type of injury: Amputation of leg Further information: The insurance officer was trying to reclaim 'overpayment' of benefit. 'From NUM submission: 'Work was to sit at desk in Colliery Canteen and collect 'tote money' 10 am to 4.30 pm. Paid £2.75. Worked Friday only. £2.75 regarded as subsistence payment only for food, drink and tobacco. Administrative Officer at Colliery advised […] payment of benefit would not be affected. Claimant suffering from anxiety and depression'.Branch NUM Secretary had written: 'Your decision in my view is not only unfair but inhuman. To take from a man £3.53 whose only earned £2.70 less refreshments does not make sense. Monies taken from the tote is used to pay workmen their bus fares to and from hospital when they are sick or injured and also to maintain the Cricket and Bowling Green'.
Extent	1 file
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area

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