Total Contributions Approach
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How much state pension will I get next year?
- Personal Finance
- October 26, 2020, 12:50
I will be 66 years of age next year. I moved to Ireland in 1995, and started paying PRSI at that point. So for 26 years, since 1995 to 2021. I will (...)

Will new pension commission cut my State pension?
- Personal Finance
- June 22, 2020, 10:00
Is the new Pensions Commission being set up by the putative coalition to look at changes in the pension age and other things likely to include discuss(...)

Pensions reform should be high on everyone’s political agenda
- Personal Finance
- February 4, 2020, 05:32
Pensions have became the unexpected issue of the election. And just for once, it is not the gray vote but the graying vote that has set political part(...)

When is State pension reform happening as it will cost me money?
- Personal Finance
- October 7, 2019, 16:30
I’m due to receive my State pension in 2020. If the TCA pension revamp comes in before June (my 66th birthday), I face a dramatic cut in the amount I (...)

Does my wife fall short on access to new, improved pension?
- Personal Finance
- November 6, 2018, 05:50
My wife hopes to transfer to a contributory State pension under the review of current pensions as part of the move to the new method of calculating St(...)

With only 10 years’ PRSI, will I be worse off on retirement next year?
- Personal Finance
- February 6, 2018, 08:31
I am 66 years old next year. I started working in Ireland in September 2006. By the end of this year, I will have approximately 530 PRSI class A paym(...)

Pension changes not just turning the clock back to 2012
- Personal Finance
- January 30, 2018, 06:00
My understanding of the pension reforms announced by Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty in the Dáil on Tuesday was that they restored the p(...)

Are new State pension rules just a fix for marriage bar women?
- Personal Finance
- January 29, 2018, 17:38
I’m due to get my contributory State pension from June this year. Is the “pension reform” announced last week essentially a “fix” for women with reduc(...)

Q&A: What do reforms of the State contributory pension mean?
- Personal Finance
- January 24, 2018, 19:36
Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has announced significant reform of the State contributory pension. But what does it all mean, and will (...)