RPI/CPI legal challenge reaches Court of Appeal
Pensioner groups fighting the government's RPI to CPI switch for benefit increases took their legal challenge to the Court of Appeal today.
The start of the two-day hearing was combined with a protest outside the court. In October, last year the the Civil Service Pensioners' Alliance and a range of other pensioner groups applied for a judicial...
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