
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order (Northern Ireland) 2019 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2019.
2 
Earnings factors for the tax years specified in the Schedule to this Order in so far as they are relevant—
(a) to the calculation of—
(i) the additional pension in the rate of any long-term benefit, or
(ii) 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 by the percentage of their amount shown opposite those tax years in that 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 rounding down any fraction of a pound less than one half and rounding up any other fraction of a pound.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 12th March 2019
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Communities

SCHEDULE
Article 2


Tax Year Percentage
1978-1979 846.7
1979-1980 735.6
1980-1981 598.1
1981-1982 484.6
1982-1983 431.0
1983-1984 393.1
1984-1985 356.5
1985-1986 328.3
1986-1987 293.3
1987-1988 266.2
1988-1989 236.9
1989-1990 204.0
1990-1991 183.3
1991-1992 157.3
1992-1993 141.6
1993-1994 130.1
1994-1995 123.2
1995-1996 113.8
1996-1997 108.0
1997-1998 98.1
1998-1999 89.4
1999-2000 81.7
2000-2001 71.0
2001-2002 64.4
2002-2003 57.6
2003-2004 52.1
2004-2005 46.6
2005-2006 40.8
2006-2007 36.2
2007-2008 30.8
2008-2009 25.5
2009-2010 21.8
2010-2011 20.3
2011-2012 17.6
2012-2013 15.5
2013-2014 13.5
2014-2015 12.5
2015-2016 10.8
2016-2017 8.6
2017-2018 5.9
2018-2019 2.8