Heir Hunters
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The Vime's Boots Index
The first official attempt to measure the cost of living was introduced in the first world war. The modern way of measuring inflation systematically is trying to get a broad measure of price pressures across the economy. And we talked about this index that is being planned, vime's boots index. Is that possible? Can you really just look at a limited basket? It sounds a bit more like the world wore. I think raising benefits with i closer to current inflation would be the first step. But actually, given we know that there are these big rice rises coming, an injection of maybe 500 pounds per household on an income related benefit would help tide people over. Also looking at the long term level of benefits
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