Retired public workers are not living in luxury

TOM KINDLON (Letters, January 7) should know that only a small number of retired public sector workers live in the lap of opulence.

The vast majority try to survive on half of what used to be a living wage. They used their retirement lump sums to pay off their mortgages, car loans, overdrafts, health bills and deposits on homes for their sons and daughters.

They served their country for a pittance compared to what they would have earned in the private sector.