Hearing Tony Blair recently announce we should pay up or shut up about rising petrol costs, I wonder if the Government has considered the thousands of disabled people in the country who rely on cars to get about.

People with mobility problems are not always able to walk, cycle or catch buses and yet more and more of their often limited income now has to be spent on petrol.

benefits.

I feel this significant group of people is being picked on because they are often worse equipped to fight such decisions.

Attending a benefit tribunal is exhausting, inconvenient and expensive and the months or years of form-filling and medical assessments leading up to an appeal could deter even the most determined (and able-bodied) person.

-Becky Wood, Southdown Road, Southwick