The latest inflation figures show that pay rises are being outstripped by inflation.
The ONS has released the inflation report for this month. It’s up again, although not as much as recent increases:
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) annual inflation grew by 2.8% in February 2013, up from 2.7% in January. The change in the rate follows four consecutive months when it stood at 2.7%.
The upward pressure came mainly from increases in gas and electricity bills and from price changes for some recreational goods, motor fuels and air transport.
By comparison, wages are rising at an average of just 1.5 per cent.
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49 Responses to “Pay rises outstripped by inflation”
Newsbot9
Yes yes, you keep using one case as an excuse for starving million. And they’re far better than you, so thanks for describing yourself as lower than a vermin.
You don’t have the faintest idea about living on benefits, it’s not a “lifestyle”, and that hideous “cushion” of being able to eat and have heating. Gotta go!
And of course you have to curb the lives of the poor thanks to a few edge cases. Evil, evil poor people!
Newsbot9
Yes, and? Broken people are broken. She’s still less broken than you, in your Jihad against Britain and the British.
Mick
Well good luck to Newsbot if he exists on chocolate and spirits as his primary diet.
And not all rental rises have soared unbearably. I quite got by with my housing association and have managed better with food bills than I did under Labour.
I don’t envy the Tories trying to manage the accounts and rebalance the economy after years of Labour’s sky-high spending and borrowing. And with little gold and no real cash reserves in the Treasury for a rainy day. 2008’s rainy day.
Mick
Slogans from Newsbot. And that’s all the Left have.
Mick
Newsbot admits cases exist where spongers can milk the system. And yes, time to end that. They’re not even grateful.
Newsbot’s actually the vermin as he lumps in genuine needy people with the likes of those who actually choose to live on benefits. My old neighbour was one case in point and she regularly had violent, scummy chavs keeping the street up all night until my housing association got rid of them.
These people are everywhere if you choose to look. Google PROBLEM FAMILIES HAVE TOO MANY CHILDREN.