Just seen this and must say I am thoroughly pee'd off. I wrote in a thread a few year back that I accepted an overseas post and a slight financial loss to my family and was happy with this as it was an opportunity. With the LOA in Germany now 25% of what it was I will get about £90 a month. Considering our weekly food shop is more here than England and our insurance (car and home) costs us about £250 a month as opposed to £100 in UK, we are now seriously out of pocket. I can't see why anyone would bother with such losses. The only positive is childcare, €200 a month full time per child which I guess more than makes up for it in our case but not in many peoples.
With this and more possible redundancies in the future the government can go
, they won't get my vote.