Posts Tagged ‘RPI’

Clever ways to clobber the poor

by Michael Meacher.

The hidden cuts are always the nastiest.   Although Osborne announced that for benefit upratings he was abandoning the normal inflation measure that has been used since 1974, namely the retail price index (RPI),  and replacing it by a consumer prices index (CPI), the full implications of this have only now become clear.   Though […]

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