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Index-linked savings certificates are to be offered to new savers again in 2011/12 by National Savings & Investments (NS&I).
Dr Ros Altmann has called on the government to reintroduce inflation-linked certificates as pensioners battle the rising cost of living.
Thousands of people who bought into low-risk savings certificates with the government's savings arm have been short-changed due to failings in its computer system, according to the Times.
Sales of index-linked savings certificates issued by National Savings & Investments have been going for thirty years today.