Pensioners in distress after failure of pension payments

This is really depressing. There seems to be hardly a person in the land, who is not in the Labour Government, who really wants to scrap pension books if pensioners want to retain them.

I accept that it may well be an outdated way of paying benefits to people but if pensioners are happier collecting money from the post office and controlling their 'cash' expenditure rather than having to control a bank acccount then what is the problem? The two main parties go on a lot about 'choice' so why does the Government not give pensioners the 'choice' on whether they have a pension book or not.

Now we hear that the computer, that doubtless cost us billions and was delivered late, locked up and refused to pay pensioners any money. Quite rightly the Conservatives are asking questions and I hope we get some answers fast!