Outlook black - and getting blacker

25/06/2008

When this Government first gave us the Winter Fuel Allowance it covered almost all of my energy bill.

 

Now, even with the extra £50.00 announced for this year it will pay barely a quarter of it. We have also been promised a return of the pension link to wages in 2012, but I fear that New Labour will be out of office by then and we are not likely to get it from the Tories.

 

After all, they linked it to inflation didn`t they? The outlook is black for us and getting blacker.

 

Mick Aherne,
Newport