SIR – I am writing in response to Philip Bird’s letter (T&A, May 13), in which he accused me of sexism.
It is a fact that the Coalition Government’s pension plans fail the test of fairness because they hit women harder than men and because they hit those on the lowest incomes and the smallest savings hardest of all.
And they fail because they break a commitment made in the Coalition Agreement.
Five million people will be affected, and many women particularly will be living below the poverty line. I reiterate, women born in 1953 and 1954 will be disproportionally affected.
I have no personal axe to grind on this issue as I am in my late 60s.
Linda Arnold, Beech Street, Bingley
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