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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 20 September 2007

Never had it so good!

• KEN Savage of Camden Pensioners Action Group (Forum, September 6) is not correct when he says: “the government… pay pensioners £87 a week, leaving more than two million in poverty”.
The truth is pensioners are paid by the minimum income guarantee, £119.05. If they have any income of their own they are allowed to keep some of this as well.
As well as the £119.05 they get free travel, no council tax, no rent to pay, free dentistry, free NHS prescriptions and various other concessions.
It is nonsense to suggest “an old person puts down a tin of beans because they cannot afford it”. They might put down the tin because they could not think clearly whether they wanted it or not, and they have all day to decide, unlike busy working people.
ANN RAYNES
Fitzjohn’s Avenue, NW3

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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