The Department of Finance has made an Order entitled 'The Public Service Pensions Revaluation Order (Northern Ireland) 2026', (S.R.2026 No.46), which comes into operation on 1st April 2026 or from 6 April 2026 for those schemes who have amended their revaluation process accordingly for 2026.

The Order fulfils the Department of Finance's obligation under Section 9 of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 to make a pension related revaluation Order each year. The Order is used by public service pension schemes to uprate benefits accrued by active scheme members in each scheme year, with reference to the procedure set out in the scheme rules. All public service schemes with the exception of the Firefighters scheme currently apply a prices (CPI) related annual revaluation. The Firefighters scheme currently applies an earnings (AWE) related revaluation.

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