AM I missing something? If I give somebody an amount of money each month and they ask for it back many years later, but I no longer have it, because I've used it for other things, so I ask them to pay it for a few years longer than originally planned, then surely I'm a thief, and should be dealt with appropriately.

Yet the Government can get away with this larceny on a grand scale regarding people's pensions.

At this rate they'll have us working until we're ninety to avoid paying us what we're legally entitled to.

This country already pays the lowest old age pension in Europe, yet are still trying to find ways of not having to pay it at all.

ERIC TRAVERS,

Gellatly Road,

Dunfermline.