It is wrong to say the Government's national bus pass scheme is for OAPs only (The Argus, January 31).
Anyone over 60 qualifies so the council has to fund the bus companies not only for OAPs to travel free, but also for people over 60 who are still in full-time employment.
If those people are on annualincrement pay scales, at 60 they are earning more than they have ever earned before. There is absolutely no need and no justification to hand them free bus passes.
The aim of the "free" pass is to force the council to pay a hefty subsidy to the local private bus company.
That's what it is really about.
- Trevor Pateman, Western Road Brighton
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