# Pensions Increase (Review) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides for increases in the rates of public service pensions.
The increase to be made in the rates of such pensions is the percentage (or in some circumstances a fraction of the percentage) by which the Department for Social Development has increased the sums which are the additional pensions in long-term benefits, namely the additional pension entitlements accruing to employees in respect of their earnings after 5th April 1978.
For pensions which began before 11th April 2011 the increase is 5.2%.
For pensions which began on or after 11th April 2011 the increases are as follows:—
Pensions Beginning
Percentage Increase
Pensions Beginning
Percentage Increase
11th April 2011 to
24th April 2011
5.20%
25th November 2011 to
24th December 2011
1.73%
25th April 2011 to
24th May 2011
4.77%
25th December 2011 to
24th January 2012
1.30%
25th May 2011 to
24th June 2011
4.33%
25th January 2012 to
24th February 2012
0.87%
25th June 2011 to
24th July 2011
3.90%
25th February 2012 to
24th March 2012
0.43%
25th July 2011 to
24th August 2011
3.47%
25th August 2011 to
24th September 2011
3.03%
25th September 2011 to
24th October 2011
2.60%
25th October 2011 to
24th November 2011
2.17%
The Order provides for increases on certain deferred lump sums which became payable on or after 11th April 2011 and before 9th April 2012.
The Order also makes provision for the amount by reference to which any increase in the rate of an official pension is to be calculated to be reduced by an amount equal to the rate of the guaranteed minimum pension entitlement deriving from the employment which gives rise to the official pension.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/137/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2012/note
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