Inflation blunder cuts 4% from member benefits

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Final salary members could see 4% slashed from their benefits after the Bank of England used miscalculated inflation rates for more than a decade, experts say.

The BoE last week admitted it had underestimated clothing prices used to determine inflation by 5.5% between 1997 and 2009, meaning the consumer price index rate should have been 0.3% higher than p...

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