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Old 01-02-2009, 08:00   #170
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Re: Living off the fat of the land.

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Originally Posted by Gayle View Post
Going back to the question you asked of me Garinda. I would probably have voted with an inflation increase. However, I would point out that there hadn't been an increase in about four or five years so I would suggest that was taken into account.

It's too early for me to do maths at the moment but I reckon it would have put it up to about £15 or something like that for a meal.
A rise in line with inflation, taking into account the years the allowance didn't go up, sounds fair enough to me.

Whatever the maths, we both know that the figure would be well below 49% and over 100% that the figures rose by, as for the last few years inflation has been relatively low.
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