
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings
Factors Order 1980 and shall come into operation on 23rd June
1980.
2 
The earnings factors relevant to the calculation of the additional
component in the rate of any long-term benefit are directed to be increased
for the tax years specified in the Schedule hereto by the percentage of their
amount shown opposite the said tax years in the said Schedule.
3 
Where any earnings factor as increased in accordance with this
Order would not but for this Article be expressed as a whole number of pounds,
it shall be so expressed by the rounding down of any fraction of a pound less
than one half and the rounding up of any other fraction of a pound.
Patrick Jenkin
Secretary of State for Social Services
23rd May 1980
SCHEDULE


Tax Year Increase
1978–79 
35.6 per cent.
1979–80
 19.7 per cent.