Pay Rise on 1st April 09?
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Dont they know house prices are down around 25% and rents down 15% on last year
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I think Daniel Hannan MEP has Broon bang to rights........
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I'm expecting a modest 2%, but if they put their hands up and admit they've got it all wrong and we're in a dire situation, I'll not argue if we get nowt, providing all charges are also frozen at 08/09 levels. Not announcing anything yet, and it looking like 30th March at the earliest, is utter comtempt for all of us in the Armed Forces!!
YouTube - Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government
I'm expecting a modest 2%, but if they put their hands up and admit they've got it all wrong and we're in a dire situation, I'll not argue if we get nowt, providing all charges are also frozen at 08/09 levels. Not announcing anything yet, and it looking like 30th March at the earliest, is utter comtempt for all of us in the Armed Forces!!
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We Are Fuc*ed
There is something else we have all missed.
Yes the AFPRB announcment is later than ever.
But when was the last budget announced in April instead of Mid March?
They haven't got a clue..... Get the Un-Elected, Scotish Moron Out before this country goes the same way as Woolworth's!
Just an observation.
Yes the AFPRB announcment is later than ever.
But when was the last budget announced in April instead of Mid March?
They haven't got a clue..... Get the Un-Elected, Scotish Moron Out before this country goes the same way as Woolworth's!
Just an observation.
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JPA is showing a pre loaded basic pay rate of 2.8% more for april than is currently on there for march. That is your basic rate of pay not including x factor, which is 14% of whatever you get paid as you basic rate. It is not anticipated that x factor is rising this year. They could easily reprogram this rate of pay to another (lower) one but it is very likely that that is what we are getting and it is just the politicians dragging the feet announcing it for some reason.
A Sgt Adminer posted the above on E goat earlier.
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Re the post above...
Fascinating, has a JPA leakage/Pprune combination just spotted something the government are clearly desperate to stage manage?
This one's worth watching....
Fascinating, has a JPA leakage/Pprune combination just spotted something the government are clearly desperate to stage manage?
This one's worth watching....
Posting Marxist slogans on a well-known military-used website?
That should attract the attention of the black Omega brigade.....
That should attract the attention of the black Omega brigade.....
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The 2.8% pay rise is fine but like previous prooners have stated if Food & Accomm goes up by 3.9% then thats a pay cut. Despite that, I think that the 2.8% pay rise is welcome and there are many people in this country who would love a 2.8% pay rise...we should be thankful of small mercies
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The 2.8% pay rise is fine but like previous prooners have stated if Food & Accomm goes up by 3.9% then thats a pay cut.
Spheroid - This only holds true if all your pay is spent on food and accom.
Spheroid - This only holds true if all your pay is spent on food and accom.
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The 2.8% pay rise is fine but like previous prooners have stated if Food & Accomm goes up by 3.9% then thats a pay cut.
Eg Sgt on £33,274 plus 2.8% means an extra £931
Can't find food and accom charges ATM but say £300 per month then an increase of 3.9% means an extra £140 per year.
So overal increase of £791 a year - not what I would call a pay cut based on simple percentages.
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It is a pay cut; CPI is at 3.2% currently, has been above 3% for the past 12 months and therefore a 3.2% pay rise with rises in accomodation and food above inflaton is thus a pay cut...
the £931 is to counteract the devaluation in the pound over the pst 12 months. You cant consider that with above inflation accom charges and not call it a paycut I am afraid.
the £931 is to counteract the devaluation in the pound over the pst 12 months. You cant consider that with above inflation accom charges and not call it a paycut I am afraid.
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It is a pay cut; CPI is at 3.2% currently
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Tell me about it as a JNCO with wife 2.4 kids etc etc I guestimate im about 15% worse off than this time last year with shopping bills, insurance costs and loss of savings interest. Ill take whatever i can get payrise wise, every little helps. At this rate ill be shopping at Aldi soon.
Dont even get me started on my quarter charges.
Dont even get me started on my quarter charges.
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Right - to clear some things up.
AFPRB recommendation is based on the Sept RPI figure.
This was 5.1%. Hence state pension and AF pension increases of 5%.
CPI is a worthless figure. Nu Labia invented it to give a false impression of inflation in the housing boom.
So a payrise of 2.8% is once again a sub-RPI payrise, the same as the last 10years. Armed Forces standard of living has reduced drastically in this time.
This is why you will see brickies, labourers and even dole-ies with better standards of living than some in the military (the self-employed, 'self-assessment' tax dodging sector has thrived, literally at our expense).
Food prices soaring, council tax up by 3.2%, fuel on the way back up and Broon gives us a pittance. The only consolation (to me) is that interest rates will have to go up to stave off real-world inflation. The current 0.5% rate helps only the bankers. Keeping them at this rate is now impossible.
F*ck New Labia and the 'non-dom' section of society who have creamed off the riches of the longest period of sustained growth into their own pockets with no benefit to the UK. In the same period Norway banked £200Bn into thier state trust fund. Ours has gone in bonusses and local government diversity advisors.
Bugger.
Now, did somebody mention something about a coup.
AFPRB recommendation is based on the Sept RPI figure.
This was 5.1%. Hence state pension and AF pension increases of 5%.
CPI is a worthless figure. Nu Labia invented it to give a false impression of inflation in the housing boom.
So a payrise of 2.8% is once again a sub-RPI payrise, the same as the last 10years. Armed Forces standard of living has reduced drastically in this time.
This is why you will see brickies, labourers and even dole-ies with better standards of living than some in the military (the self-employed, 'self-assessment' tax dodging sector has thrived, literally at our expense).
Food prices soaring, council tax up by 3.2%, fuel on the way back up and Broon gives us a pittance. The only consolation (to me) is that interest rates will have to go up to stave off real-world inflation. The current 0.5% rate helps only the bankers. Keeping them at this rate is now impossible.
F*ck New Labia and the 'non-dom' section of society who have creamed off the riches of the longest period of sustained growth into their own pockets with no benefit to the UK. In the same period Norway banked £200Bn into thier state trust fund. Ours has gone in bonusses and local government diversity advisors.
Bugger.
Now, did somebody mention something about a coup.
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Sorry maybe I didn't make what I was saying clear enough but based on the 2.8% rise in pay and 3.9% increase in Food and Accom - The pay WILL go up and so it is a rise based on simple percentages. Obviously not taking into account RPI/CPI/Inflation %s.