| Description | Date of birth:
Marital status: Widowed
Address: 1 Blackburn Place, Ilkeston
Type of benefit claimed:
Type of injury: Not applicable
Further information: Appeal was for Industrial Death Benefit. Willis Jones had died aged 42 on 23 December 1957 after uraemia as a complication following renal surgery. Jones had suffered a severe depressed skull fracture in 1951 in an accident at Mickley Colliery and had never returned to his former heavy job. Several letters from the claimant whose son had started work at Coppice Colliery - the Coal allowance had been transferred to the son. The death benefit was refused because the accident had not contributed to the death. Claimant wrote: 'I think I am entickle to it because he drew disablement benefit up to his death.[...] I am sure his accident hasten his death after all your head as something to do with your hold body'. She claimed that Miners' Widows pension was insufficient: ' I would sooner have a grant & finish with it, As you will know if you are a family man I have things to buy for the home [...] as it his our own house I have repairs to pay for' and 'My Husband pay into everything at the pit but I received nothing only his holiday pay which pay for his funeral because he was not insured. The union he pay since he was 14 [...] If he live he would have got £75 when he retired but God took him'. Claimant was in receipt of Widowed Mothers Allowance and wrote: 'Having forms to fill in every month and Witness to say I have not married again I think it is a disgrase'. Mr Kitts, Compensation Agent for NUM, replied 'With regard to your point about what other people say, It would be advisable to take little or no notice of what people, who do not really know, tell you [...] there are no Provident Benefits from the Union fund apart from Old Age Pay'. |