Current rpi and cpi
And in case you didn’t know, the RPI is the Retail Price Index; the CPI is the Consumer Price Index. Why does it matter? Lots of payments are linked to inflation – pensions, benefits, index-linked savings The higher the inflation figure, the higher the payments. RPI almost always gives a higher figure for inflation than CPI does. As it stands right now; RPI is 2.7% and CPI 2.1% and it’s CPI that’s the Government’s preferred measure of inflation. This stems from an announcement back in the 2010 Budget that RPI would no longer be used as the measure to increase benefits and pensions and instead, that the Government would use the ‘lower’ CPI figure. RPI generally runs at about 1% higher than CPI and is currently 2.8%, compared to a CPI of 1.9%.