A pension system that is unfair and unaffordable | Letters

Guardian readers respond to an article by Zoe Williams which argued that cutting the welfare bill should start with pensions Zoe Williams seeks to stimulate a debate about pensions and intergenerational inequality, but seems to have overlooked the issues surrounding the funding of public-sector defined-benefit (DB) pension schemes ( All this talk about ‘difficult’ cuts, yet the largest part of Britain’s welfare bill is never mentioned. Why?, 21 May ). Such schemes place enormous pressure on publ