Will Brown Let Us Down Again? ; Waiting Game Drags On As the Victims of Failed Pension Schemes Grow More Fearful of Betrayal

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The Government is expected this week to announce a further boost in payments to those who lost their pensions when their employers went bust. But it is not clear whether this will finally deliver financial justice for the 125,000 victims of failed works pension schemes.

Among the victims hoping for good news is Bob Soar from Glynneath near Neath, South Glamorgan, who is still waiting for compensation in lieu of the Pounds 15,000 a year pension he lost when his employer folded four years ago.

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Will Brown Let Us Down Again? ; Waiting Game Drags On As the Victims of Failed Pension Schemes Grow More Fearful of Betrayal

Bob, 64, has had to find work in an old peoples home to make ends meet.

Details of the new compensation plan have yet to be confirmed, but campaigners led by Ros Altmann, former adviser to Tony Blair, fear it may fall short of putting...

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