
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order (Northern Ireland) 2018 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2018.
2 
The earnings factors for the tax years specified in the first column of the Schedule in so far as they are relevant—
(a) to the calculation—
(i) of the additional pension 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 Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 (including that Part as modified by or under any other enactment),are directed to be increased for those tax years by the percentage of their amount shown opposite those tax years in the second column of the Schedule.
3 
Where any earnings factor relevant to the calculation specified in Article 2(a)(i), 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.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 7th March 2018
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Communities

SCHEDULE
Article 2


Tax Year Percentage
1978-1979 820.9
1979-1980 712.8
1980-1981 579.1
1981-1982 468.7
1982-1983 416.6
1983-1984 379.6
1984-1985 344.1
1985-1986 316.6
1986-1987 282.6
1987-1988 256.2
1988-1989 227.7
1989-1990 195.7
1990-1991 175.6
1991-1992 150.3
1992-1993 135.1
1993-1994 123.9
1994-1995 117.1
1995-1996 108.0
1996-1997 102.3
1997-1998 92.7
1998-1999 84.2
1999-2000 76.8
2000-2001 66.3
2001-2002 59.9
2002-2003 53.3
2003-2004 48.0
2004-2005 42.6
2005-2006 37.0
2006-2007 32.5
2007-2008 27.2
2008-2009 22.1
2009-2010 18.4
2010-2011 17.0
2011-2012 14.4
2012-2013 12.4
2013-2014 10.4
2014-2015 9.4
2015-2016 7.8
2016-2017 5.7
2017-2018 3.0