HAVING read the story ‘£40,000-a-year’ Lancashire County Council officer was paid £½m for two years’ (LT, September 26), how are we even surprised that this kind of thing goes on?

Last year the housing benefits department, in a self-confessed error and which they confirmed I could have had no possible knowledge of, overpaid my housing benefits to the tune of £800 over a full year.

The council has hounded my and my family to hell and back for this money which we do not have.

The stress of it all has put my wife in hospital – for £800 so that councillors can milk us dry and then blame us for the problems of the nation.

Let’s face it, red rosette or blue rosette, they are all Tories now. Rossendale Labour make Thatcher’s Tories look like Socialists.

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