We’re already paying tax on our state pensions

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I’d like to clarify the misinformation about pensioners not currently having to pay tax on their state pensions that has been circulating. In the current financial year, I will, for the first time, be paying tax on my state pension (my sole income) as a result of the tax threshold policy. Therefore Rishi Sunak’s claim in the leaders’ debate (Report, 4 June) that pensioners will pay income tax for the first time under a Labour government is incorrect. Maria Kraithman Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire A Nigel Farage supporter in Clacton says: “We’ve got to get to grips with immigration. We’ve got people who can’t get hospital appointments” (Report, 4 June). Have they been near a hospital recently? Ours has a high proportion of immigrants working there, in every type of healthcare. We’d not have a hospital without them. Sarah Sheils York A lovely letter (4 June) about the final concert in Manchester by the Hallé orchestra with Sir Mark Elder conducting. But it’s not his final finale. They will be at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall on 27 June. Janet Lail Nottingham The cockney rhyming slang “duck and dive” is surely most often used to rhyme with “skive”, rather than “hide” as in your article (Artist hopes to reintroduce cockney rhyming slang to young Londoners, 10 June). Dr Iain Ferris Pembrey, Carmarthenshire Rhyming slang disappearing? Cobblers! Rosemary Chamberlin Bristol