I am in my eighties and live in sheltered property once owned by the council and now by a housing trust. In the last year our full time support worker's time has been halved.
As I am unable to use public transport I have a Taxicard. Time has been cut from this and we have to pay £2.50 instead of £1.50 a trip - two cuts. As diabetic and infirm a chiropodist would come every three months. As I can hobble with a wheelie walker out to a cab, I now have to get transport from the surgery and go to Sidcup.
I thought that these three strikes were enough until the April rent increases came. My rent increase is £5.88 - water up 29p and service charge up by £11.10 - that makes a weekly increase of £17.27.
As yet we have no council tax or support workers charges through. I do not think that our pension increase will cover such a large hike. Why are the elderly being hit so hard? We are the people who picked up the country and its hardships after the Second World War.
Make the elderly pay - that's the way it looks to me.
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