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Ex footballers with dementia suffer blow in campaign benefit payments

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EXCLUSIVE: Social Justice Cabinet Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville warned of the difficulties of turning a paper-based process into a digital system.

Scottish Ministers have signalled another delay in Holyrood taking over a vital benefit for people injured at work.

The partial devolution of social security includes the decades-old Industrial Injuries Disablement Scheme, which will be renamed as Employment Injuries Assistance. They believe footballers whose dementia was caused by heading the ball should qualify for payments, as well as people with conditions such as long covid.

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Somerville wrote that both Governments are working through the “complex arrangements” for devolving the benefit to a timetable that protects current recipients.Sir Alex was one of 30 football legends who demanded brain injuries caused by heading the ball are classed as an industrial injury.

 

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