
2025 No. 188
Social Security
The State Pension Debits and Credits (Revaluation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025
Made 27th November 2025
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1(1)

This Order is made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 130AD and 165(1) and (4) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and now vested in the Department for Communities.
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has made an Order under sections 148AD(2) and (3) and 189(1) and (4) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.

Accordingly the Department for Communities makes the following Order.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
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(1) This Order may be cited as the State Pension Debits and Credits (Revaluation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on—
(a) 22nd December 2025 for the purpose of making an award on a claim for a state pension under regulation 15(1) of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (advance notice of retirement and claim for and award of pension) to a person who reaches pensionable age on or after 7th April 2026; and
(b) 6th April 2026 for all other purposes.
(2) In this Article “a state pension” means a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015.
The increase in the amount of relevant debits or credits
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For the purposes of paragraph 3 of each of Schedules 8 and 10 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (pension sharing: appropriate weekly rate and reduction), the amount of relevant debits or credits for the tax year specified in the first column of the table set out in the Schedule to this Order is directed to be increased by the percentage of their amount specified in the corresponding entry in the second column.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 27th November 2025
(L.S.)David Tarr
A senior officer of the Department for Communities

SCHEDULE
Percentage increase of the amounts of relevant debits or credits for specified tax years
Article 2


Tax year  Percentage increase
2016-2017  39.2
2017-2018  37.8
2018-2019  33.8
2019-2020  30.7
2020-2021  28.5
2021-2022  27.9
2022-2023  24.0
2023-2024  12.6
2024-2025  5.6
2025-2026  3.8