When the flat rate pension comes into effect in 2017 almost 200,000 servicemen and women face a £47million a year tax raid on their pensions by David Cameron’s reforms.
Troops will have to pay an extra 1.4% in national insurance which will cost an Army private around £162 a year from their take home pay.
The Tory's have always portrayed themselves as custodians of our armed forces.
The continuing attacks by the coalition on defence capability through cut after cut and sustained attacks on the jobs and terms of conditions of both military and civilian staff show the reality is the opposite.
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