SHOCK as nurses and teachers take PAY CUT despite Prime Minister promising BIG increases

THOUSANDS of public sector workers, including many nurses and teachers, are taking home less money despite the Government promising the biggest public sector pay increase “for a decade” just weeks ago.

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“No one mentioned the wider implications of this pay rise" (Image: GETTY)

The pay increase means some workers have to pay more towards their pensions as a result of being dragged into a higher pension contribution band.

Many of the increases have also failed to keep up with inflation.

An NHS source told The Sun newspaper some young nurses were shocked to see the their take home pay had gone down.

She claimed: “for many young families this has impacted their current lives.

“No one mentioned the wider implications of this pay rise.”

She said some NHS staff who had received an increase were only making an extra 60p per month.

However she did admit: “People recognise the NHS pension is a rare golden one.”

The Government announced last month that around a million public sector workers would get a pay increase.

This ended the controversial one percent public sector pay cap which had been in place for seven years.

As this was generally below the cost of living increase it essentially amounted to an annual pay cut, which the Government claimed was needed to rebalance the public finances.

Under the new deal some public sector workers received a pay boost of as much as 3.5 percent, though many received more like two percent.

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As inflation for this year is estimated at 2.4 percent by the Office for Budget Responsibility this would still be a pay cut for many workers.

On Tuesday the British Medical Association, which acts as a union for doctors, claimed that 90 percent of doctors are unhappy with the pay deal.

NHS staff are due to get two percent extra per year for the next three years.

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NHS staff are due to get two percent extra per year for the next three years (Image: GETTY)

Steve Webb, former pensions minister under David Cameron and Royal London policy chief said: “Millions of nurses, teachers and other public servants have faced nearly a decade of pay squeezes and will have believed that things were finally going to get better.

“It was unforgivable not to explain that increased pension contributions could mean some of them would actually be worse off following the new pay deal.”

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