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A football legend’s window has blasted the SNP Government over new delays in using welfare powers to help players with dementia . ‌

Ministers are allowing the DWP to continue delivering industrial injury payments despite growing calls for urgent action for ex-pros hurt by heading the ball. ‌

Amanda Kopel, whose husband Frank died from dementia after a successful career with Dundee United , said: ‌

“Another delay is seriously awful. The SNP Government is just passing the buck. The dead cannot fight for justice.”

A cross-party commission in 2014 led to industrial injuries benefits being devolved to Holyrood.

But since then the Scottish Government has signed deals with Whitehall allowing the DWP to take the lead. ‌

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