Plea for old-age pensioner

THE EDITOR: Please allow me to express how disappointed I am with the Welfare Office. My effort is to help an elderly woman to continue receiving her old age pension. She lives alone and depends on it for survival. If it had not been for good saving and the aid of her niece she might have ended up begging for assistance from neighbours and friends. This elderly lady cannot move around as she once did and is confined to her home. It has been approximately seven months since this pensioner received her pension. It turned out that the Welfare Association thought that she the old age pensioner had passed away and so her name came off the list.

Even though reports have been made to them informing them that she is alive and well, she still has not received her pension. It seems the Welfare Association cannot wait to take your name off the list as soon as they presume you are dead. Instead of her saving her money for when the inevitable happens, she has to take it to ensure that it does not happen before time. I would greatly appreciate it if they can look into this matter as soon as possible and really take time and check themselves, for now it is people’s lives that they are playing with.

KEDA ROBERTS
County of St George