SIR – John Phillpott mentions that there are a lot of the younger generation who are unemployed. It appears to me they don’t want work.

For some time now our government has said it is going to put an end to it and an end to the sick culture.

I know someone who was laid off work through an ankle injury and going to the hospital for treatment.

Even so, the DHSS keep pestering him and knocking off benefits, expecting a family to survive on nothing. How he would love to work.

JOHN NORWOOD,

Kidderminster.