17 OCTOBER 1947, Page 17

VOLUNTARY PENSIONS SCHEME

Sut,—A considerable number of people with small incomes were induced, in 1937, to join the Voluntary Pensions Scheme and have paid Is. 3d. per week ever since. Under the new Health Act to come into force in July, 1948, all these contributions are to be confiscated. The fact that the Government describes this confiscation under the polite term of "merging" only adds insult to injury. The very least that could be done would be to returvaphis money without interest. The moral, of course, is "Don't save, or if you do, see that the Government does not

get hold of your savings."—Yours faithfully, R. A. RED). 6 Bloomfield Crescent, Bath.