Manchin Leads Effort to Evaluate and Improve Black Lung Benefits
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 6, 2023
March 06, 2023
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) led a
group of seven Senators in urging Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to conduct a study to evaluate the adequacy of
current black lung benefits in meeting income and healthcare needs of disabled
miners and their families. The study is critical to informing policy aimed at
supporting coal miners and their families in West Virginia and across
Appalachia.
“Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, commonly known as black lung
disease, is a fatal, incurable . . .
