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Miner benefit levels are tied to the federal pay scale rather than the cost of living. Therefore, though inflation levels have risen, miners’ black lung benefits have not.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe money comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and will go towards the state’s Black Lung and Coal Miner Clinics Program to provide financial help to the program’s health and treatment services.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsU.S. Sen. Joe Manchin announced legislation meant to help survivors of miners who died after suffering from black lung.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe 2020 West Virginia legislative session has ended with no new legislation addressing black lung benefits, leaving former and current coal miners to…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsJust three bankruptcies of American coal companies have added more than $800 million in costs to a federal government program that funds health care for…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA new report from the nonpartisan budget watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense says that an expired coal tax is effectively a taxpayer subsidy for the…
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