
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order 1986 and shall come into operation on 5th June 1986.
2 
The earnings factors relevant—
(a) to the calculation—
(i) of the additional component in the rate of any long-term benefit; or
(ii) of any guaranteed minimum pension; or
(b) to any other calculation required under Part III of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (including that Part as modified by or under any other enactment),
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.Rounding 
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
6th May 1986
SCHEDULE


Tax year Increase
1978–79 140·7
1979–80 112·3
1980–81 77·4
1981–82 48·5
1982–83 35·0
1983–84 25·3
1984–85 16·1
1985–86 8·9