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EU national Irish pension rights if moving out of Ireland in future

  • 25-05-2023 7:18am
    #1
    tandcapply
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I've spent most of my working life career in Ireland (only one year in another EU country)

    I hold other eu nationality and wondering what happens to my private and public irish pensions if I move back or to another country as, like many other EU nationals living here, have no Irish passport or etc.



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  • #2
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,086 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    If you qualify for an Irish retirement pension, you can claim it from abroad; there is no difficulty about that.

    By the sounds of it, you will quite likely qualify for the retirement pension on the basis of your social insurance contributions paid in Ireland. But if you haven't paid enough Irish contributions to qualify for the full pension, you can have your contributions paid in other EU/EEA member states taken into account to increase the Irish pension to which you are entitled.



  • #3
    tandcapply
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭tandcapply


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120638058#Comment_120638058

    Yes, paid for circa 20 years and counting. I'm just wweighing out the benefits (if any) of me applying for an Irish citizenship and can't think of any reason to go through all this paperwork and substential sum of money.

    Unless there are reason why I should

    Post edited by tandcapply on


  • #4
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,086 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120638874#Comment_120638874

    As long as you hold the citizenship of another EU/EEA country, holding Irish citizenship as well won't improve your social welfare (or tax) positions.

    Irish citizenship might be useful if you want to live or work in the UK, or if you want full voting rights in Ireland or in the UK, or if you wish to bring your non-EU/EEA spouse/partner to live with you in another EU/EEA country, or if you think there's any chance that your own country might leave the EU/EEA — a few specific circumstances like that. And if your grounds for Irish citizenship are based on residence here and you are contemplating leaving Ireland, then it's a kind of now-or-never thing, so you might want to think about whether any of these circumstances might apply to you in the future.



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