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- noun Plural form of
uprating .
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Examples
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Inequality as measured by the international yardstick the Gini coefficient remained stubbornly high, although it fell during Gordon Brown's premiership thanks to above-inflation upratings of welfare benefits and targeted increases in child benefits.
Tax cuts for high earners make no sense – give them to those on low incomes 2011
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The change in benefit upratings from RPI to CPI means severely disabled people will lose £285 from the disability living allowance and £235 from the employment and support allowance by 2014.
Benefits: Families and disabled people will be hit by 'Thatcherite' cuts 2010
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But he will also know that his proposals cut the support for the additional pension for six million women and four million men by £100 a year as a result of his upratings by CPI rather than RPI.
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But he will also know that his proposals cut the support for the additional pension for six million women and four million men by £100 a year as a result of his upratings by CPI rather than RPI.
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The IFS says that the Tory 1997 tax and benefit regime, with the usual upratings, would by 2008 have propelled 2.1 million more children into poverty.
Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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A further statement to Parliament on Monday will set out all other benefit upratings. "
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