I agree 100 per cent with the comments made by R. D. Calrow and Numen Lumen (February 28).

I, like many more pensioners in the last week, received notification of my pension increase entitlement in April, and putting it alongside the council rate rise, found it didn't cover it.

As a person who in the past has always paid my rates well in advance of the due date, my strategy now will be to pay them at the latest date possible, and as soon as any voting poll card comes through my door, it will go into the dustbin and I urge all other pensioners to do the same.

B. LEES.