I hope that pensioners do not take the advice of A Sedgwick to "pose as an asylum seeker and claim all the benefits that ensue" (Letters, April 16).
If they did, so, then a single pensioner would be at least £45 per week worse off!
COUN DAVE SMITH (Sunnyhurst Ward), Woodbank Avenue, Darwen.
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