Cartoon: John Sadler

• CAMDEN Citizens Advice report on the Department for Work and Pensions’ awful assess­ments on sick and disabled people made me very angry.

I myself have recently had an assessment. For the DWP to routinely target people in their 50s and 60s is disgraceful. Leave us alone!

We are the generations who worked hard, some in heavy manual labour. Many of us have had difficult and challenging lives. And it’s our generations who have funded the state pension.

Instead of forcing us to go through these humiliating, degrading and upsetting medical tests, let us have the choice to claim our state pensions early, on health grounds.

This would mean taking us off the unemployment stats, freeing up more jobs for the young!

My own health, physical and mental, has been deteriorating year by year. Why should I suffer just because the government choose to move the goalposts re state pension for women? How dare they?

The government should stop these horrific assessments and start listening to the GPs’ reports, as well as to us, the claimants.

To all the political parties: focus on some of the young adults who are not in work or education, and offer them the jobs you’re forcing on older people!

MISS DEE
Beversbrook Road, N19