Need to raise Government pensions
published: Wednesday | August 6, 2003

THE EDITOR, Sir:

THIS IS my third letter to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Junior Minister with responsibility for Government pensioners.

In the first letter dated 25/7/02, I wrote on behalf of the 'disadvantaged' pensioners, who retired before 1995, and I emphasised the worthlessness of the monthly pensions in the face of the high cost of living.

In that letter I beseeched you to consider an immediate monthly increase of 100 per cent to our pensions which is under $20,000 per month.

In the second letter, dated December 31, 2002, I stressed that the paltry amount of $1,000 per month given to this group was an insult, and did not improve the indigent circumstances of any pensioner who must depend on less than $20,000 per month to survive.

Since then, the massive taxation increase is literally killing us, due to the excessive hardships which we are not able to surmount. The request for a 100 per cent increase is reasonable.

I am, etc.,

DISTRESSED PENSIONER

Dunrobin Avenue

Kingston 10

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