REGRETTABLY my letter about cuts in care for disabled pensioners (September 21) contained errors and misprints.

The correct maximum savings you can have is £23,250.

If you have that amount the government think you can pay £336 a week from your savings, as the new glossy booklet ‘Paying for Your Care’ states.

Your care should easily cost £100 per week, so the other £64 would have to come from your income which might be anything from £150 per week to £500 per week or more.

Unfortunately the new booklet fails to clearly explain the maximum income you can have and still get help.

On page 11 it states ‘Savings and assets plus income minus standard living costs minus disability related costs = your accessed contribution’.

Meaningless. You cannot just add savings to income.

On the other page the booklet recognises this and converts savings between £14,250 and £23,250 into ‘tariff income’ at a national rate of 20-eight per cent per annum (not 10-five per cent as I wrongly wrote).

It goes on to state ‘This tariff….is not the interest you may actually receive’. I’ll say it isn’t. Savers are lucky to receive two per cent per annum now.

I thank John Jackman, Director of Adult Social Services for sending me the booklet. I wish it was clearer about income.

MICHAEL HUGH-JONES

Headley Way

Oxford