Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group
Current Asbestos Issues
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Benefits Information
Full Benefits Pack 2009
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Payment Information for Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers Compensation) Act 1979
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Consultation Response
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit Review 2007
Consultation Response
Damages Consultation 2007
Consultation Response
Welfare Reform Consultation (CM 6363) 2008
Employers' Liability Insurance
Employers’ Liability Insurance: the need for change. All-Party Parliamentary
Group on Occupational Safety and Health
All Party Group
Consultation Response
Employers' Liabilty Compulsory Insurance Review 2008
The insurers' attempt to deny asbestos victims compensation has failed.
Press Release 21st Nov
Government U-turn on employers' liability insurance hits asbestos victims
Press release 1
Press release 2
Mesothelioma
Call for government funding for mesothelioma research centre.
Forum Press Release
Consultation Response
Improving Mesothelioma Claims Handling 2008
Consultation Response
Speeding up Mesothelioma Claims 2008
Payment Information for Diffuse Mesothelioma Scheme
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Pleural Plaques
25 February, 2010. Pleural Plaques Decision
Forum Presss Release
Government Delays Pleural Plaques Decision Yet Again
Forum Press Release.
Consultation Response
Pleural Plaque Consultation Paper 14/08
29th January Pleural Plaques Lobby
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Turner & Newall
Government Allows T&N Claimants to Keep Lump Sum Payments
Government Press release
Department for Work and Pensions Social Security Administration Act 1992 : Asbestos Related Diseases
Report by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
in accordance with Section 171 of the Social
Security Administration Act 1992 reviewing the
prescription of the asbestos-related diseases.
IIAC Report July 2005,