
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order 1985 and shall come into operation on 3rd June 1985.
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.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Tony Newton
Minister of State
Department of Health and Social Security
30th April 1985
SCHEDULE


Tax Year Increase
1978–79 121.0 per cent
1979–80 95.0 per cent
1980–81 62.9 per cent
1981–82 36.4 per cent
1982–83 23.9 per cent
1983–84 15.1 per cent
1984–85 6.6 per cent