Benefit payments
Sir, —■ I am concerned about the cutting of the additional benefits for pensioners and solo parents. Surely this will cause the reduction of the standard of living for these people. The additional benefit has assisted us as a hardship allowance. It has helped us to give our children the little extras they need, to furnish our homes modestly, to pay our rising power bills and the rising cost of food. How are we expected to live? If workers’ wages were cut then the trade union would be behind them and there would be a strike. Who will fight our cause I
wonder? We have no union behind us; it is a pity we cannot hold the rest of the country to ransom while we strike for a decent standard of living. It would cost the Government more to keep these children of solo parents in orphanages. — Yours, etc., J. WRIGHT. July 6, 1979. ]
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