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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1920/2/1/41/30
TitleLocal Appeal Tribunal case file for Edwin Millership, aged 64, Miner at Warsop Main
Date1976
DescriptionDate 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'.
Extent1 file
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorNational Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area
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