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emigrating and state pension

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  • 02-12-2014 10:15pm
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    danger_mouse_tm
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭


    We will be emigrating to the US early next year. Is it worth looking into making voluntary contributions to insure a state pension at retirement age?


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    MouseTail
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭MouseTail


    danger_mouse_tm wrote: »
    We will be emigrating to the US early next year. Is it worth looking into making voluntary contributions to insure a state pension at retirement age?

    you cant make voluntary contributions unless resident here.


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    danger_mouse_tm
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭danger_mouse_tm


    MouseTail wrote: »
    you cant make voluntary contributions unless resident here.

    That's a shame to see all those years of paying prsi going to waste.


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    MouseTail
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭MouseTail


    They wont. They will still count. You might not get a full pension, but you may be entitled to a partial one. You can check with the PRSI division how many stamps you have.


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    smiles
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    Check this out -- http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/sw91.aspx

    The Agreement does this by allowing social security contributions paid in one country to be counted towards qualifying for certain payments in the other country.

    The Agreement also deals with the social security status of workers who are sent on temporary assignments from one country to the other.

    (I was working in the US for a few years and wanted to keep my PRSI whole)


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