This is the only health benefit left to people over 60 surely it is better to get free prescriptions to control health problems than to have to choose between health and heating or other bills, it also allows people to not become a burden on the nhs which would cost more and tie up more nhs reasources at a time when it is most under stress. This benefit is free is a lot of other places in this country perhaps it’s time we started thinking about the older people in this country as a whole and not as a fragmented set of people subject to the post code lottery of where you live in this country