Tens of thousands more former mineworkers could be set to benefit after the government announced it would review a controversial pension scheme.
The 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 (MPS).
The first instalment of the £1.5bn Rachel Reeves pledged to pay back will be made on Friday.
The government has now confirmed it will look at a second miners' pension after former pit managers in the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme (BCSSS) challenged their exclusion from the new payments.