Elderly anguish of heating or eating
I HOPE the MPs who voted against maintaining the triple lock on pensions are proud of themselves. Thank you for keeping our senior citizens on the lowest pension deal in the Western world. Their excuse is that wages have been boosted artificially by the pandemic, so it is wrong for them to be linked to the state pension. We all know the trade unions will see that salaries are not reduced and employers will need to pay more to attract staff. As energy bills rise ever upwards, those who grafted all their lives and paid their dues may have to decide between eating or heating this winter. And thanks to the Budget, those on £50,000 salaries can claim Universal Credit. The message from the top is clear: greed is good and stuff those at the bottom.
G. daWsON, liverpool.
THE state pension is not a benefit, but a fund into which people paid throughout their working lives. We believed it was protected by the triple lock, set up as a safeguard against devaluation caused by inflation. Pensioners were betrayed by MPs, who have gold-plated pensions, when they tore up their manifesto pledge to honour the triple lock, claiming a lack of funds. The Government will regret this betrayal of those voters
K. MORRis, cavendish, suffolk.
THOsE MPs who voted against the retention of the triple lock can’t have many impoverished pensioners among their constituents. They never fail to find the magic money tree when dipping their snouts in the trough.
JOhN EVaNs, Wokingham, berks.
As A pensioner, I’d like to thank MPs for making my mind up as to who to vote for in the future.
Mrs h. bluNdEN, london E4.
WITH inflation at 4.2 per cent and the state pension rising by 3.1 per cent, pensioners have received a pay cut.
PEtER lauRiE, colchester, Essex. MOANING pensioners should remember the state pension was intended to be basic. It’s not meant to discourage thrift and personal responsibility.