{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2014/99",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Review) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides for increases in the rates of public service pensions.\nThe 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.\nFor pensions which began before 8th April 2013 the increase is 2.70%.\nFor pensions which began on or after 8th April 2013 the increases (following the calculation set out in article 3(1)(b)) are as follows:—\nPensions Beginning\nPercentage Increase\nPensions Beginning\nPercentage Increase\n8th April 2013 to\n22nd April 2013\n2.70%\n23rd November 2013 to\n22nd December 2013\n0.90%\n23rd April 2013 to\n22nd May 2013\n2.48%\n23rd December 2013 to\n22nd January 2014\n0.68%\n23rd May 2013 to\n22nd June 2013\n2.25%\n23rd January 2014 to\n22nd February 2014\n0.45%\n23rd June 2013 to\n22nd July 2013\n2.03%\n23rd February 2014 to\n22nd March 2014\n0.23%\n23rd July 2013 to\n22nd August 2013\n1.80%\n23rd August 2013 to\n22nd September 2013\n1.58%\n23rd September 2013 to\n22nd October 2013\n1.35%\n23rd October 2013 to\n22nd November 2013\n1.13%\nThe Order provides for increases on certain deferred lump sums which became payable on or after 8th April 2013 and before 7th April 2014.\nThe 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/99/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:07:24.363756+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."
}