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    State pension in same time invalidity pension

    As you got your Invalidity pension recently you are possibly better off to stick with it as you may not have enough PRSI contributions to give you a similar rate of pension. However the dept will usually give the higher rate that you are entitled to.
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    Recommend day trips from Dublin using free travel pass

    A trip to Wexford with Bus Eireann, Wexford Bus, or Train. Stay over at White's Clayton Hotel (5 minutes from bus or train) Or, Stay at Talbot Hotel (10 to 15 minutes from bus or train) Stop off at Gorey on the way back.
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    loveholidays - any views?

    I won't be booking with Loveholidays but interested in hearing from anyone who has booked a package (which includes a Ryanair flight) with other verified travel agencies
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    loveholidays - any views?

    But I'm wondering what other agents are verified to sell Ryanair flights as part of a package. Anyone any experience of this?
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    Recommend day trips from Dublin using free travel pass

    Remember most of the private bus companies accept the travel pass also.
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    loveholidays - any views?

    Sorry I can't help with "loveholidays" just seen their adverts. I just wondered if anyone has booked a package holiday which includes Ryanair flights through a travel agent. Seems verification is required?
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    UK pension but have moved to Ireland

    If her total income is below the Irish Non Contributory rate of pension she can apply for a non contrib. pension and may be entitled to a top up, to bring her up to the Irish pension rate. On receipt of that small pension she can then apply for Fuel Allowance, Living alone allowance and...
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    State Contributory Pension .-Advice

    There was an adjustment made in 2000/2001 when the tax year changed from April to Jan to coincide with the calendar year. From memory everyone was awarded an extra 13 contributions. As you had a few A contributions in the remainder of 2002 my suggestion is that you ceased to be a homemaker in...
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    State Contributory Pension .-Advice

    Those 7 credits cover the period January 1st to Feb15th 2002
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    State Contributory Pension .-Advice

    Homemakers 8 years would be deducted from the 31 working years leaving the total number of reckonable contributions and credits divided by (31-8) =23. Are there pre-entry or change of status credits available to you. It appears to me you would be entitled to almost a full rate of pension
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    State Contributory Pension .-Advice

    As your first class A contributions were made prior to April1991 Wops and class D contribution will be ignored and the records will begin counting from there.(1991) The total number of A contributions and credits would be divided by (1991-2022)=31working years less the number of caring years to...
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    Healthcare costs - not insurance 47k Average Household income to qualify for Free GP Card

    Health minister announced the following yesterday GP visit cards for another 430,000 people, with no more the median income of €47,000will be rolled out on a phased basis. Under the old threshold a couple on a single income with 2 children and a mortgage had to have maximum weekly earnings of...
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    Entitlement to Irish State Pension?

    I am assuming you have an official copy of your PRSI contributions record and not just your own calculation?
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    Do I require Multi Trip Travel Insurance

    Got chatting with a lady at Dublin Airport while waiting for a flight. She told me that unfortunately her husband had died while on holiday in France. In order to get the body home her health insurer were charging her €31,000 which she was refusing to pay. She told me "that was the day she left...
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    Paying by Cash and Card in self service checkouts.

    Just trying to figure out why you all seem to have so many coins to get rid of. I seem to be constantly trying to hoard a few coins for the parking meters. With all this tapping of cards there's no coin around.
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    Scam purporting to be from eFlow?

    Just got a text from "eFlow" to pay 6.40 or an additional fine of 97.50 will be sent to my home address as I have been recorded using the motorway without paying. My car hasn't left the driveway in the past few days except to go to the local supermarket less than a kilometer away. Scam I presume??
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    Help calculating entitlement to Contributory Pension

    Homemakers credits are allowed to those who reman in the home to care for children and therefore they are not paying PRSI during that period those years. Home Caring scheme is for those who take time out to care for a sick child or adult and may also be in receipt of Carers allowance (means tested)
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    Why don’t women who suffered the ‘Marriage Ban’ sue the State?

    Fortunately the life span of women who worked in the civil service is the same as those who did not. That's about 82. I'm part of a group of 10 former civil servants who still get together a couple of times a year and we have only lost one but we all still bear the pension scars.
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    Why don’t women who suffered the ‘Marriage Ban’ sue the State?

    I am amused at Lepers comment about buying a car. Yes we did that too but when we went to have it insured the man in the insurance office told us that if "she" was not included the premium would be cheaper, to which I replied "We did not buy half a car" BTW at that time one could walk into...
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