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Just been on the news that they are expecting inflation to rise to 5%.. as working for the government our payrise, which was due in June, has been capped to 2% at the most.. how are we supposed to manage even out of an IVA.. its getting worse!!

Its affecting everybody, I had an abusive taxpayer on telephone yesterday at work who got really personal, as his business is failing.. I got quite upset and just thought how many more calls am i going to get like this..

Just feeling really fed up with life at the moment!!!

I work for the government too and can appreciate your concerns! I get so cross when people expect to receive benefit handouts for nothing incl their housing and council rent/tax and then refuse toapply for suitable work - there are very few people that could not do ANY work - even those with disabilities are able to undertake something small in alot of cases!

Our 2% capped increase this year won't even help towards the utility bills - let's hope our IP's see sense at review times and allow us to consider lowering payments if needs be !

they should be understanding were with dfd and they have taken the cost of living and the rise in inflation into consideration. Ask if you dont you dont know

The Unions for Public sector workers have yet to agree to 208/09 inflationary increase. Judging from the disquieted TUC debate on pay,and Darling's comments in reprise - what PSector staff will get will be way less than 4.8% inflation rate.....no milestones in pay settlement expected....dire