Taxing older workers

SIR – You report (May 7) on plans to make those who work past retirement age pay national insurance.

This group is being unfairly attacked, and it has got to stop. Many of us have to continue to work in order to keep a roof over our heads. We have also contributed NI all our lives to keep others, and now it is our turn.

Incidentally, those of us who were born before 1953 get a much lower state pension, despite paying full contributions for 40 years. Can these bright sparks in the Government get their act together and target those who pay nothing but receive everything – and stop picking on us? Veronica Hall

Potters Bar, Hertfordshire