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I want to move from Disability Allowance to Invalidity Pension.

  • 04-05-2018 10:56pm
    #1
    John632
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    To move from disability allowance to invalidity pension I need 48 prsi credits in the penultimate year before I apply ie 2021 ( 2019 )....what is the (easiest) way to get 48 prsi credits on my record because I don't have credits for over 10years...please help....thanks in advance


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  • #2
    Squatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭Squatter


    John632 wrote: »
    To move from disability allowance to invalidity pension I need 48 prsi credits in the penultimate year before I apply ie 2021 ( 2019 )....what is the (easiest) way to get 48 prsi credits on my record because I don't have credits for over 10years...please help....thanks in advance

    If you could get a part-time "rehabilitative" job in 2019 that would earn you a wage in excess of €38 per week (2018 level) then you could accumulate paid PRSI contributions on your record. Assuming you were paid the minimum pay rate, you'd only have to work about 4 hours a week!

    Remember to get DSP permission before taking up any employment.


  • #3
    John632
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭John632


    Squatter wrote: »
    If you could get a part-time "rehabilitative" job in 2019 that would earn you a wage in excess of €38 per week (2018 level) then you could accumulate paid PRSI contributions on your record. Assuming you were paid the minimum pay rate, you'd only have to work about 4 hours a week!

    Remember to get DSP permission before taking up any employment.
    thank you squatter


  • #4
    Plugguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭Plugguy


    John632 wrote: »
    To move from disability allowance to invalidity pension I need 48 prsi credits in the penultimate year before I apply ie 2021 ( 2019 )....what is the (easiest) way to get 48 prsi credits on my record because I don't have credits for over 10years...please help....thanks in advance

    Maybe you already have been receiving credits while on disability allowance. You should check your PRSI contribution record.


  • #5
    John632
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭John632


    Plugguy wrote: »
    Maybe you already have been receiving credits while on disability allowance. You should check your PRSI contribution record.

    Thank you John 632 will check again last time I checked had none from 2009-2012


  • #6
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    John632 wrote: »
    Thank you John 632 will check again last time I checked had none from 2009-2012

    John your entitlement to credits while on DA is based on what you were doing immediately before you got the DA.
    Were you working, Illness Benefit , DA or what?


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  • #7
    John632
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭John632


    splinter65 wrote: »
    John your entitlement to credits while on DA is based on what you were doing immediately before you got the DA.
    Were you working, Illness Benefit , DA or what?
    Only have my records atm up to 17 Dec 2013...no credits 2009-2012. 36 credited contributions in 2008...28 paid 20 credited in 2007...seem to have 52 per year b4 that...was working then went on illness...then on disability


  • #8
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    John632 wrote: »
    Only have my records atm up to 17 Dec 2013...no credits 2009-2012. 36 credited contributions in 2008...28 paid 20 credited in 2007...seem to have 52 per year b4 that...was working then went on illness...then on disability

    You last worked in 2008?
    If you want to get IP you will need to start work again to build up your PRSI before applying for it.

    To get Invalidity Pension you must have at least:

    260 (5 years) paid PRSI contributions since entering social insurance
    48 contributions paid or credited in the last OR second-last complete tax year before the date of your claim
    The last complete tax year is the year before your claim and the second-last complete tax year is the one before that. For example, if you claim Invalidity Pension in 2018, the last complete tax year is 2017 and the second last complete tax year is 2016.

    You cannot use voluntary contributions to satisfy the PRSI conditions for Invalidity Pension.


  • #9
    chicorytip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭chicorytip


    splinter65 wrote:
    You cannot use voluntary contributions to satisfy the PRSI conditions for Invalidity Pension.


    Are the qualifying criteria - in the medical sense - for Invalidity Pension the same as those for Disability Allowance and do those currently in receipt of D.A. automatically transfer to I.P. when they reach retirement age, sixty eight years or whatever it is now?


  • #10
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    chicorytip wrote: »
    Are the qualifying criteria - in the medical sense - for Invalidity Pension the same as those for Disability Allowance and do those currently in receipt of D.A. automatically transfer to I.P. when they reach retirement age, sixty eight years or whatever it is now?

    If your on IP you automatically transfer to to full State Pension Con.
    If you are on DA you have to apply for a pension via an application form. Some may have an entitlement to a State Pension Contributory but by far the majority will be applying for a State Pension Non Contributory.


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