1. This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order 2018 and shall come into force on 6th April 2018.
2. The 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(1); or
(b)to any other calculation required under Part 3 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993(2) (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.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Work and Pensions
27th February 2018