Josephine Vella (December 7), as well as other ill-informed commentators should refrain from being economical with the truth when addressing the gullible by speaking of “cuts in social benefits in many European countries but not in Malta”.

Malta’s social security imposed “legalised fraud” on a section of pensioners more than 30 years ago and Nationalist administrations have continued to sanction it for almost 25 years.

I am referring to the deduction of one pension from another of about 6,000 pensioners who happened to have had more than one employment, including one with a foreign government or institution or private company.

They will again be economical with the truth when addressinggullible audiences today and tomorrow at the European Jobs and Mobility Fair, who will be encouraged to work overseas. These are unlikely to realise that the social security procedure now in place in this country will deduct their foreign occupation pension from the two-thirds contributory pension they are entitled to here.

I very much doubt that political posters promising “more money in your pocket” will impress the 6,000 or so pensioners who already have been suffering from one of the worst injustices meted out by post-colonial Malta against a sector of its mature citizens.