Three separate questions have arisen from this thread...
1. When will the armed forces/public sector next get a pay rise (and how much)? Unawswerable...I don't know and nor does anybody else. I am a gambling man and will put 50p on Apr 2013 and 1 X CPI.
2. How much will armed forces pensions go up in April 2012...5.2% or 5%. From a financial viewpoint I couldn't give a monkeys...but I do hope AL R finds out because I do enjoy his posts (correct..I have no life
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3. Will the government do something (anything) to short change public sector pensioners out of these index-linked rises. Very, very unlikely, for all sorts of reasons which are too boring to relate...but not impossible if we continue to get sucked into a financial abyss.
OK...that was four questions