{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-1987/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-1987/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/130",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Review) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-1987",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Pension increases",
  "text": "The annual rate of an official pension may, if a qualifying condition is satisfied or the pension is a widow’s pension, be increased by the pension authority in respect of any period beginning on or after 6th April 1987 as follows:—\n(1) a pension beginning before 28th July 1986 may be increased by 2.1 per cent of the basic rate as increased by the amount of any increase under section 1 of the 1971 Act or the existing Orders;\n(2) a pension beginning on or after 28th July 1986 and before 6th April 1987 may be increased by 2.1 per cent multiplied by\nAB where\na A is the number of complete months in the period between the beginning date of the pension and 6th April 1987, and\nb B is 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/130/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:33:24.243152+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}