Adjustment of postretirement benefits to compensate for the effects of inflation such as increasing pension benefits to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to make up for a change in the cost of living.
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UK: A method whereby benefits or sums insured are increased periodically by a factor derived from an index of prices or earnings. Household building sums insured are linked to a rebuilding cost index and contents cover increases annually in line with an index reflecting replacement costs. Regulations oblige exempt approved schemes to increase pension payments for post April 1997 service by at the least the appropriate percentage taken from the retail price index up to 5 per cent per annum but this cap reduces to 2.5 per cent in 2005 under what is called limited price index (LPI). LPI does not apply to AVCs and FSAVCs. See ESCALATION; STABILITY INDEX CLAUSE.