I WOULD like to reply to the report of April 4 when the assertion was made that all council tenants were paying the service charges for the sheltered housing tenants.

If this is true then our council must have been collecting this money twice.

I was told that my service charges were included with my rent when I moved into sheltered housing. That's once.

It was being paid, and if the other council tenants were also paying, that's twice!

Now Bromsgrove District Council wants to charge us again, that's three times!

Come on Cllr Psirides, do you think we are all gullible?

Finally, because 70 per cent of sheltered housing tenants are on housing benefit, social security is paying. So there.

Dennis Wheatley,

Lowes Court,

Bromsgrove.