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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Essie[/i] [br]Hi all, I hope you are all doing ok, I know there are guidelines for the OR to follow/refer to about our allowances, but do these change at all with the retail price index / inflation to reflect the ever increasing cost of living? Do they take into account the rise in VAT to 20% or the fact that bills such as elec and gas are going up by over 15% or that food gets more expensive each time you walk into the supermarket. I find each time I go to tesco or wherever it just gets more and more expensive and struggle to keep to the pittance of a weekly allowance. Just buying toilet rolls takes up 10% of the budget! It's completely mad. Just going to the swimming pool with another adult and two children costs £20 these days! Sorry about the rant!! Many thanks E Finally got head out of sand in October 2010 BR March 2011 [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.