My letter printed in the Echo headed "Putting poverty into perspective" has been edited in such a way it does not make the points I wanted to.
The following has been removed: "Yes, the marriage allowance is withdrawn when a spouse dies, but in order to have been getting the married tax allowance in the first place one must be at least 71 (born before April 1935).
"For people in the age-group 65-74 the basic tax allowance (that means what you can receive before tax) is £7,550. This is far higher than tax allowances for the under-65 age-group which is £5,225."
Mrs Boucher, who was complaining about withdrawal of married tax allowance and cessation of the 10 per cent band cannot have been listening very closely to the Chancellor's Budget speech in March.
One of the things he said was that he intended to take a whole swathe of pensioners out of the tax bracket by progressively raising tax allowances for the over-65 age-groups.
I am no great fan of Mr Gordon Brown, but it's untrue to say that he made no provision for over-65s at all in terms of tax allowances.
Mb>Margaret Stoll
Rochefort Drive
Rochford
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