REGARDING your report (LET, July 28) about senior citizens taking a petition to Downing Street, calling for a basic weekly payment of £75, I would like to see the powers that be trying to live on this small amount.
These pensioners have worked hard all their lives to have a decent retirement and this is how they are repaid - with a small pension to live on.
I think it is time the Government had someone with a few brains to help our pensioners. Talk is all we hear. They should do something and do it now.
So, come on, you pensioners demand your rights - £100 a week is what they need to live on.
KEN SMITH, Brookway, Blackburn.
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