Govt to aid miners
Coalminers who take State Coal’s voluntary redundancy package will get financial help to buy a house elsewhere, according to the Minister of Housing, Mr Goff. The Housing Corporation would buy houses in coalmining towns and provide mortgage assistance to those miners who chose to seek work away from the coalfields. Mr Goff said that when the Coal Corporation began on April 1 it would
take over responsibility for 400 State Coal homes. It had undertaken to guarantee all existing tenants 12 months’ occupancy from April 1 and to honour the existing terms and conditions of the tenancies and not to increase rents until after July I, 1987.
Mr Goff said that if the Coal Corporation wanted to sell houses the tenants would be given the first option.
The Coal Corporation
had also affirmed, for the individuals who qualified, that it would continue to honour the State coal practice of allowing retired miners and miner’s widows to stay in State Coal homes, Mr Goff said. The corporation would continue to provide coal at a nominal cost to those individuals who received this from State Coal, he said, and be reimbursed from the Government as part of its social responsibility payment
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