Save our perks

There are complaints about pensioners getting winter fuel allowance, free bus passes, tv licence and prescriptions, which is calculated to be worth £500 a year.

and there are calls for this money to be given to the young. But remember that child benefit adds up to £1,076.40 for one child per year, twice the value of a pensioner’s perks.

S. Staples, East Preston, W. Sussex. How can the Government use the figure of £17,040 as the poverty line and still take in £1,000 in income tax?

if this income were used as the base figure for income tax it would have some connection to reality. Allin Dutchman,

Frome, Somerset.