 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Pocket money rockets.(News)
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Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
| Date:
April 1, 2005
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CHILDREN have seen pocket money levels rise by more than four times the rate of inflation over the last year, the Halifax bank said yesterday.
Youngsters in Wales are this year's winners, receiving an average of pounds 13.51 per week pocket money, well above the UK average of pounds 8.37.
The main pocket money losers are children in the South West (pounds 4.87 per week), Yorkshire and the Humber (pounds 5.08) and the East of England (pounds 5.39).
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