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Home » Coal miners fear losing health benefits due to bankruptcies
More than 22,000 retired miners and their dependents will lose their health care benefits on April 30, 2017 unless Congress passes the Miners Protection Act.
Miners who for years accepted lower wages in exchange for lifetime health benefits are faced with the loss of those benefits due to the bankruptcies of a number of mining companies.