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Non-contributory pension

  • 10-03-2012 6:27pm
    #1
    mike kelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭


    What is the minimum non-contributory pension that irish citizens are entitled to? I have worked for only 8 year. Will I be entitled to any pension when I turn 67?


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    If you want a pension based on contributions, you're talking abut the contributory state pension. That pension will be based on years/30 i.e. 30 years contributions gets you the full (100%) state contributory pension. The minimum pension is based on 10 years contributions and you will get one-third (10/30) of the pension when you reach 67 if born between 1955 and 1960. So for 8 years contributions you would not qualify for the contributory pension.

    You may be entitled to credits for other (non-working) periods, incuding time spent on jobseekers benefit and women can claim credit while rearing children up to the age of 12.

    For the non-contributory pension there is a means test. If you pass the means tets they deduct any means you are assessed as having from the current weekly non-contributory pension. I don't know if there is a minimum amount.


  • #3
    Lugh Ildanach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Lugh Ildanach


    If you don't have any other means, then the maximum non-contrib pension is 219 Euro per week for yourself, and 144.70 for any spouse/partner who is under 66. There is also an increase of 29.80 for each child under 18 (or under 22 and still in full-time education).

    If your spouse/partner is over 66, they can claim a pension in their own right.

    There is no minimum amount. Your means are assessed, so if you have means over a certain amount, then you will receive nothing.

    Citizenship is irrelevant to whether you get state pension. The non-contributary pension is however subject to the habitual residence rules (which apply equally to irish and other nationalities). If you have 8 years recent history of employment in Ireland you are likely to meet the habitual residence requirements, although if you have ties elsewhere which suggests that your habitual residence lies in another country, you will be refused a payment.

    The above does not apply to the contributory pension. For details on contrib pension, see the above post!


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