
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order (Northern Ireland) 2021 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2021.
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 10th March 2021.
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Communities

SCHEDULE
Article 2


Tax Year Percentage
1978-1979 910.2
1979-1980 791.6
1980-1981 644.9
1981-1982 523.8
1982-1983 466.6
1983-1984 426.1
1984-1985 387.1
1985-1986 357.0
1986-1987 319.6
1987-1988 290.7
1988-1989 259.4
1989-1990 224.4
1990-1991 202.3
1991-1992 174.6
1992-1993 157.8
1993-1994 145.6
1994-1995 138.2
1995-1996 128.1
1996-1997 121.9
1997-1998 111.4
1998-1999 102.1
1999-2000 93.9
2000-2001 82.4
2001-2002 75.4
2002-2003 68.2
2003-2004 62.3
2004-2005 56.4
2005-2006 50.2
2006-2007 45.3
2007-2008 39.6
2008-2009 33.9
2009-2010 29.9
2010-2011 28.4
2011-2012 25.5
2012-2013 23.3
2013-2014 21.1
2014-2015 20.0
2015-2016 18.2
2016-2017 15.9
2017-2018 13.0
2018-2019 9.7
2019-20202020-2021 6.72.6