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Early Farm Retirement Scheme shortfall.

  • 26-06-2014 3:09pm
    #1
    WoollyWoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭


    Any information on this would be great.

    My Mam will be turning 65 in August which ends the Early Farm Retirement Scheme she has been involved in for the last 10 years. She applied for the state pension but won't qualify for it until she is 66 (she only found that out yesterday in a letter she received from Social Welfare...who sent her the application forms in the first place).
    The local Social welfare office couldn't advise her on what to do and her Teagasc rep couldn't advise her either. They said they'd try and find out.
    In the mean time - Does anyone here know if there is some sort of bridging pension for people in her situation to get her to her 66th birthday? Or will she have to apply for jobseekers allowance?

    Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    whitebriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭whitebriar


    Stamps are paid,so head held high and off into the local social welfare office to claim UB.
    If nothing else it would be an experience.
    Expect your mum to be sent on courses,child minding would be a good one.
    I'd put child minding down as the type of job being looked for regardless.
    It's plausible


  • #3
    WoollyWoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭WoollyWoman


    Thanks for the response :-)

    Teagasc got back and said she would be paid until her birthday in 2015. She got confused because of the forms she was sent by the Social Welfare for the State Pension, which she was struggling with for ages to get information for.
    Her Retirement Scheme didn't start till October 2005 so she has a year left....panic over!

    Thanks again and sorry if I put the wind up anyone else!


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