2016-10-11 15:32:23 +0100
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To: Damian Green - Work and Pensions Secretary
Stop the pensioner 'Bedroom Tax'
Stop the changes to pensioners' housing benefit.
Why is this important?
Plans to cut housing benefit will affect people who have worked hard all their lives. Pensioners should not bear the brunt of yet further underhand benefit cuts.
The hardest hit will be the poorest of pensioners, those on state pensions. The likes of my mother, who worked hard all her life and brought our family up. We've all been grafters, and now she's being punished by a government that just doesn't care. In fact, it's not that they don't care, it's that they don't even see.
My 81 year old mum has been living in a two bedroom council flat for 35 years, it's her home. Pensioners like my mum will lose £14 per week or be pressured into leaving her beloved home.
This is yet another example of a government which simply doesn't care about ordinary people in our country and yet again targets the most vulnerable.
The hardest hit will be the poorest of pensioners, those on state pensions. The likes of my mother, who worked hard all her life and brought our family up. We've all been grafters, and now she's being punished by a government that just doesn't care. In fact, it's not that they don't care, it's that they don't even see.
My 81 year old mum has been living in a two bedroom council flat for 35 years, it's her home. Pensioners like my mum will lose £14 per week or be pressured into leaving her beloved home.
This is yet another example of a government which simply doesn't care about ordinary people in our country and yet again targets the most vulnerable.
