RIBBLE Valley MP Nigel Evans comments (LET, May 18) that people living in so-called sheltered accommodation only pay £5 for a TV licence while other pensioners pay the full amount.
As a resident of a pensioner's bungalow, I would like to point out this is a complete fallacy. The majority of us pay the full fee of £89.50.
To qualify for the £5 licence, you have had to live in one of these premises prior to the end of 1988 or have a full-time warden living on site.
That was the case when we moved here in early 1989. Then, when the wardens were removed owing to local cutbacks we were immediately robbed of our concession.
It is a ludicrous situation that next-door neighbours may pay vastly different amounts.
Perhaps a good Philadelphia lawyer could knock some sense into our politicians and treat all pensioners alike.
M HALLWORTH, Plantation Square, Accrington.
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