SIR – Edwina Currie in her letter (T&A, April 26) writes, “ in these uncertain times, it is more important than ever to ensure that everyone is aware of their potential entitlement to benefits and tax credits”.
Her message has sunk home in the capital, where all the boroughs and the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) are working together on a take-up campaign to ensure that Londoners claim the benefits to which they are entitled to. Not so in Bradford, where the DWP has refused to support a far smaller initiative by Bradford Council to encourage disabled people to claim Disability Living Allowance. It is estimated that up to 60 per cent of disabled people don’t claim the allowance to which they are entitled. A take-up campaign in Bradford would need the resources of the DWP to process the additional claims; it seems those resources are tied up elsewhere.
Bruce Barnes, Wilmer Road, Heaton
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