WHEN is this government going to help the pensioner? We waited 12 months for a £1 rise, which I think is an insult to those who have worked all their lives to get the state pension.

Some fought for this country and this is the thanks they get in their old age.

Why give free TV licences just to the over-75s? Would it not be more fair to give it to all on the state pension, as they need help also.

The Government has put the winter heating allowance up to £150, but pensioners will not get this until Christmas, when they need help now.

So why can't they give us a fair pension to live on each week once and for all -- say, about £100.

Don't you think they have earned a good pension, knowing what they went through in the early days with things like rationing, the three-day week, power cuts, etc.

They had to put up with all this and were promised they would get a fair old age pension, but this has not been kept.

J LIVESEY (Mr), Accrington Road, Blackburn.

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