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Workers with "slightly reduced life expectancy" from work-related illnesses still entitled to special benefits

A commission has overturned a decision to deny special terminal illness benefits to a worker with a dust disease, and criticised the decision maker for applying an arbitrary criteria for the "imminence" of death.

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