House that for an unfair handout?

■ HERE we go again… typical Tories. Rishi Sunak is supporting the rich with two or three homes to the tune of £73million by giving them the £400 discount meant to help those struggling with energy price rises (Mirror, June 7).

And this while he can’t find the money to give NHS staff, teachers and other public sector workers a decent pay rise after all they did, and continue to do, for the country in the pandemic.

Nor will he help senior citizens with a decent rise in state pension or benefits for those most in need. Instead the rich are laughing all the way to bank. It’s been like this since Thatcher. We are a divided nation. Michael Duke

Skipton, North Yorks

■ Once again our multi-millionaire Chancellor Rishi Sunak shows how out of touch he is when it comes to the plight of struggling workingclass families.

He rushed out his cost-of-living package as a diversion tactic from Partygate and to help save his mate Boris. And instead of focusing the measures on those with the greatest need, his rich Torybacking friends with several homes will also receive the £400 discount.

The reported £73million this will cost the taxpayer should be allotted to the poorest families. Neil Atherton St Helens, Merseyside

■ Multi-millionaires like Rishi Sunak will get two or three £400 energy discount payments for each of their homes – but most caravan-park homeowners, who are usually pensioners, get nothing because we have to pay our electricity costs to the site owner.

Surely, there should be another way of receiving this discount apart from being an electricity account holder?

Why is it that those most in need miss out, while the rich benefit? Lesley Back, Frodsham, Cheshire

■ It might sound like a bribe, but Rishi Sunak’s plan to give payments to all households and also hand out cash for pensioners could save the Conservatives’ skins at the next general election.

And he is right to introduce a windfall tax on the wealthy gas and oil giants who can hardly complain when they’re awash with money.

If the Chancellor hadn’t acted, the result would probably have been soaring crime in the UK. Paul Marston, Walsall, West Mids

■ Surely the Government could have come up with a way of ensuring people with two or three homes don’t receive three £400

discount payments when they obviously don’t need it?

The payments should have been targeted at those who are struggling and really need help, instead of giving it to everyone.

I only hope that the wealthy people who receive the payments have the good grace to donate the money to charity.

M E Matthews Macclesfield, Cheshire

■ I see the Chancellor is giving the £400 energy discount to his own kind with more than one home and, in some cases, three homes.

Come on, Mr Sunak, you’re supposed to be looking after the whole of this country, not just those who don’t need it.

Tony Howard, Salford

■ Shortly after the Government announced the £400 discount to help with our heating, our local Shell garage put the fuel prices up two pence a litre.

So it seems pretty pointless when you consider how much the cost of everything else is going up.

Phil Richings, Nailsworth, Glos