Ripping off our seniors

Dear Editor: I draw attention to the provincial government the increase in the medical services plan.

We are in receipt of an invoice for the month of Jan. 2017 in the amount of $150. This is a 14 per cent increase. This 14 per cent increase in real terms is $14 per month.

We received absolutely no notification of this increase. What is even more despicable is the fact that we pay by pre-authorized debit, therefore leaving the way clear for additional funds to be siphoned from our account without our knowledge. We believe this is fraudulent.

What right does any institution, government, or otherwise, have to dip into our meager pension funds at will?

Much is being ballyhooed lately of the B.C. government lending money to young people to allow them to more easily purchase a home. Is that where our extra $14 a month will be used?

We too were young once and financed our own mortgages. Perhaps, instead of gouging senior citizens who worked for every dollar of their mortgages and paid into pension funds for a lifetime, thought should be given to raising the pensions, and making all medications governmentapproved.

I suspect this additional 14 per cent levy will be transferred to general funds to support the government’s generosity to all citizens except seniors, who do not receive such hefty increases in their puny allotments.

The month of May will quickly approach, and this government will then wish they had listened to this older generation who have been there. Done it all, seen it all.

There is nothing new in scamming seniors to pay for votes from other segments of society.

These other segments will be seniors one day, and will have to deal with another batch of governmental robbers and thieves.

And so it goes, the poor and the aged get poorer and the agents of the government give themselves another raise.

Wayne and Elizabeth Lynch Okanagan Falls