SIR – The recent government plan to change the welfare system has received a great deal of publicity. What makes my blood boil is the constant reference, from both politicians and the media, to the system being a “something-for-nothing culture”. In this life you do not get something for nothing – unless you happen to be a failing bank.

Don’t these people realise that when a person, like myself, has a disability or an illness which prevents them from working, we are not getting something for nothing? Having health problems is the price we are paying.

Good health is priceless and it’s time these politicians stopped picking on the vast majority of genuine Incapacity Benefit claimants and concentrated on getting the near two million able-bodied unemployed back to work.

Stuart Jessop, Marsland Place, Thornbury