Written evidence from Peterborough Pensioners
Association (BUS 05)
I am chairman of Peterborough Pensioners Association.
I verify our members need the bus pass to get to our meetings
and visit friends also to get to the doctors and hospital appointments.
It is essential having the bus pass to enable older people to
leave their homes and so stop becoming isolated, lonely and ill.
The measly pension, in some cases £75 a week
which is all too common is not enough to live on let alone go
to social clubs one day a week. We need the free bus pass it is
a necessity not a luxury.
November 2010
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