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Pension contributions from different EU countries and UK

  • 26-06-2019 11:25AM
    #1
    volchitsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,481 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,
    Not retired yet, in fact not even close to retiring, but I'd like to understand how this is likely to work for me. I suspect it's going to be very complicated!

    My first question is what trimesters are counted in Ireland, I know some countries count time spent at university but does that only work in the country where one is claiming the final pension and does one have to have been at university in that country? I was at UCD but left soon after graduation, I only really worked a couple of summer jobs in Ireland, and then a couple of years in the UK (NI to be exact) before leaving for Germany and then France, which is where I'd be collecting my pension, and where the biggest part of my contributions have been paid.

    Does anyone know who or what I'd need to contact to find out what rights I may have accrued in Ireland, north and south, and how best to avail of them?

    Thanks.

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



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  • #2
    Squozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭Squozen


    You'd speak to Revenue for the Irish part and HMRC for the UK's.


    There are EU treaties that allow you to count the time you spent working in another EU state to be counted towards your time in your retirement country - check welfare.ie for more information on that.


  • #3
    volchitsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,481 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    Thanks a lot.

    Does anyone know whether time in higher education can count towards the final pension - in terms of years served, that is. Obviously it wouldn't increase the amount paid, but I'm trying to get an idea of the age at which I can start to think of retiring, and I think the UK counts university trimesters, or used to. As I didn't study in the UK anyway it isn't relevant for me but i wondered if Ireland had something similar. But even if they do it may not be any use to me, as perhaps it only counts for a pension in Ireland. Which is not what I'm looking for, just totals of trimesters/years completed.

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



  • #4
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    volchitsa wrote: »
    Thanks a lot.

    Does anyone know whether time in higher education can count towards the final pension - in terms of years served, that is. Obviously it wouldn't increase the amount paid, but I'm trying to get an idea of the age at which I can start to think of retiring, and I think the UK counts university trimesters, or used to. As I didn't study in the UK anyway it isn't relevant for me but i wondered if Ireland had something similar. But even if they do it may not be any use to me, as perhaps it only counts for a pension in Ireland. Which is not what I'm looking for, just totals of trimesters/years completed.

    You can only get your statutory pension when you reach pensionable age, that age is being increased in stages and depending on your date of birth might be anything between 65 and 68

    https://www.pensionsauthority.ie/en/LifeCycle/State_pensions/State_pension_age/

    If you have a private pension it is dependant on the actual plan details.


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