Letters
Pay the pensioners what they deserve
Sir - There is £46 billion in the National Insurance fund, money that citizens have paid for the whole of their working lives.
If the Government wishes to take pensioners out of poverty then itmust use our money to pay a State pension of £135 per person per week - this figure is based on the Government's own figures.
It is a fact that 62 per cent of married pensioners exist on less than £10,000 per year and the percentage of singles on less than £5,000 is even higher. Since 1979 an MP's salary has risen by 542 per cent. State pensioners have risen by 274 per cent. If the state pension had risen by the same percentage as MPs salaries pensioners would be in receipt of £152.44 per week instead of £90.70.
Pensioners have been promised by Government they would share the wealth of the country. The only way to do this is to take pensioners out of fiscal and fuel poverty, use our money to pay a proper non means- tested pension.
Fred Kaler,
Chairman, Evesham and District Older People's Forum.
9:00am Tuesday 6th May 2008
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