Madam, - Minister for Social Protection, Éamon Ó Cuív has been making noises recently about means-testing contributory old-age pensions.
Contributory means "what it says on the tin". I have been paying PRSI for more than 40 years for this pension, some years as a voluntary contributor. I have a contractual right to this pension. I would countenance a freezing or even a small reduction in the old-age pension, but not means-testing.
- Yours, etc,
JIM O'SULLIVAN, Model Farm Road, Cork.
