
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order (Northern Ireland) 2020 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2020.
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 9th March 2020.
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Communities

SCHEDULE
Article 2


Tax Year Percentage
1978-1979 884.6
1979-1980 769.0
1980-1981 626.0
1981-1982 508.0
1982-1983 452.3
1983-1984 412.8
1984-1985 374.8
1985-1986 345.4
1986-1987 309.0
1987-1988 280.8
1988-1989 250.3
1989-1990 216.2
1990-1991 194.7
1991-1992 167.6
1992-1993 151.3
1993-1994 139.3
1994-1995 132.1
1995-1996 122.4
1996-1997 116.3
1997-1998 106.0
1998-1999 96.9
1999-2000 89.0
2000-2001 77.8
2001-2002 71.0
2002-2003 63.9
2003-2004 58.2
2004-2005 52.4
2005-2006 46.4
2006-2007 41.6
2007-2008 36.0
2008-2009 30.6
2009-2010 26.6
2010-2011 25.1
2011-2012 22.3
2012-2013 20.1
2013-2014 18.0
2014-2015 17.0
2015-2016 15.2
2016-2017 13.0
2017-2018 10.1
2018-2019 6.9
2019-2020 4.0