Pensioners groups are uniting in London to urge the coalition government against switching the pensions indexation to the consumer price index, as it will push millions into poverty.
The emergency budget announced the government will use CPI instead of RPI from April 2011. As CPI inflation rates are consistently below RPI rates, millions of pensioners will see a long-term de...
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