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 pensionsZoe 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 public f...