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Old age pension

  • 22-08-2014 7:26pm
    #1
    lanomist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭


    I have been on an invalidity pension for the last four years having worked and paid stamps since i was eighteen. I turn sixty five next year and have been told by a friend that i can go straight on to the old age pension. I have checked the department website and can find no reference to this. I also went to my local citizens information and they just printed off a load of info. that i had already seen on the website. Can anyone help ?


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  • #2
    Cushie Butterfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭Cushie Butterfield


    lanomist wrote: »
    I have been on an invalidity pension for the last four years having worked and paid stamps since i was eighteen. I turn sixty five next year and have been told by a friend that i can go straight on to the old age pension. I have checked the department website and can find no reference to this. I also went to my local citizens information and they just printed off a load of info. that i had already seen on the website. Can anyone help ?
    Budget 2014

    The higher Invalidity Pension rate of €230.30 per week that used to be paid when claimants reach age 65 was discontinued in 2014. The new rate payable to people aged 65 (and under) is €193.50 per week. This applies to people claiming Invalidity Pension who reach their 65th birthday from 2 January 2014. Existing 65 year olds are unaffected. This measure is being undertaken in line with the abolition of the State Pension (Transition) from 2 January 2014.
    People who are getting Invalidity Pension (existing and new recipients) will continue to be automatically transferred to State Pension (Contributory) at age 66 and they will receive a weekly rate of €230.30.

    http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Invalidity-Pension.aspx


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