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Published: 11 October 2007

Benefits system is a minefield for older citizens

• AFTER reading the letters in the New Journal from pensioners, it is evident the benefits system particularly for the old, is a minefield.
If it had not been for a wonderful Labour councillor – who sadly lost at the last elections – and all the help he gave me and a certain equally patient and helpful person at Camden’s benefits advice section, I also would have been in the distressing situation that too many of these other old age pensioners are suffering.
I, like so many of the old, have a phobia of filling in forms and there are so many.
And no one is going to help us unless we ask the right people.
In the past the solution was very simple, make out women were witches and torture them to death. Of course, this only happened to the poor as they were considered to be a burden. Humanity has improved a bit since then, although not that much when I see some of the treatment in care homes.
ANITA BROOKS
Springbank Walk, NW1

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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