Explanatory note

This Order amends the Redundant Mineworkers and Concessionary Coal Payments Schemes scheduled to the Redundant Mineworkers and Concessionary Coal (Payments Schemes) Orders 1978, 1983, 1984 and 1986.

The 1986 Scheme is amended to extend to persons made redundant after 3rd January 1987 the right to make-up benefits where the person, although unemployed, fails to qualify for unemployment or sickness benefit. The amendment takes account of changes to the qualifying conditions for those benefits made by section 6 of the Social Security Act 1988.

All the Schemes are amended to provide for the weekly payments of unemployment benefit equivalent to be reduced by the weekly rate of any invalid care allowance to which the recipient is entitled. In addition, the reduction in such weekly payments on account of occupational pension payments is disapplied in the case of persons in respect of whom a similar reduction is made by virtue of section 5(1) of the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980.