Although it's had a lot of extra weight built into it, the engine has been uprated.

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The Scottish government recently uprated its targets to hit 80% by 2020.

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Clearly there is discrimination between those who live in the 40 countries where pensions are uprated and the rest of the world where they are not.

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So most working-age benefits - including Jobs Seekers' Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Income Support - will be uprated by 1% for the next three years.

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Instead, the accrual rate applies to existing salary and is then uprated by CPI inflation for civil servants or a bit better than that for teachers and NHS staff.

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The child element of child tax credit and the disability elements of tax credit will be uprated in line with inflation, but other tax credit increases will be restricted.

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The case could potentially have affected up to 490, 000 British pensioners living overseas in countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, who do not have their state pensions uprated each year.

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It found that benefits for asylum seekers had not been uprated since 2011, and highlighted problems with the cashless system used to provide for failed asylum seekers who have not been deported.

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And this year, transfers from the state to households have been uprated by a bit over 3%, compared with inflation that is expected to be at least a couple of percentage points higher than that.

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As it happens, average weekly earnings have fallen by almost exactly that amount, in real terms, since the coalition came to power (see my last blog), while benefits have consistently been uprated in line with inflation.

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Tax credits - including child tax credit and working tax credit - will be uprated by 1% for three years from April 2013, apart from the basic and 30-hour elements where the uprating will not apply until 2014.

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Difficult as it is to recall now, 2009 was a period of relatively subdued inflation, because of the deflationary impact of recession: taxes and benefits were uprated by an inflation rate which then turned out to be much higher than what actually happened to prices in the subsequent 12 months.

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