Reader’s opinion|The cuts must be done fairly.
Is it is it right to cut the housing allowance of a single parent with two children who is persevering on a small sickness pension? When a mother desperately starts looking for a job recommended by our government, no one wants to hire someone who is “ready to be sick”. What advice, government and other wise men?
It reminds me of the wartime I experienced: the father is at war, the mother distributes a carefully regulated knob of butter and a piece of bread to her two growing children, and she herself goes without. Through the crack in the door, I can see how the manor people dance in their golden shoes while the gramophone plays on the side of the hall with their guests from Helsinki.
Marja-Leena Lyyra-Kukkonen
university lecturer, retired (84 years old), Helsinki
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