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Government to review second miners pension scheme

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73% Informative

Chancellor used last month’s Budget to scrap a 30-year old arrangement that saw the government receive hundreds of millions of pounds a year from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme .

The first instalment of the 1.5bn Rachel Reeves pledged to pay back will be made on Friday .

Former pit managers in the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme ( BCSSS ) challenged their exclusion from new payments.

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75

Informative language

73

Neutral language

45

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

49

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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Time-value

short-lived

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1

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