Re: losin built up Prsi
no, i wont be workin between jobs. There will be a break of approx. 6 weeks or so.?
From my slight knowledge of our
complex PRSI system the following extract from link would appear to apply to your situation:
"What happens to my social insurance record if I am no longer in employment?
Credited contributions
If you leave the workforce, it is important that you keep your social insurance record active. To protect your social insurance record, you should contact the Department of Social and Family Affairs to check if you can receive credited contributions. Credits are contributions that the Department makes on your behalf if you can no longer pay social insurance when you leave the workforce. "
Credits" are usually awarded at the same rate as your last paid contribution when you were working. For example, if you were working and paid Class A PRSI, your credits if you ceased work would be Class A credits and therefore would help you to qualify for the benefits available under Class A insurance.
Credited contributions can be as important as paid contributions in order to help you qualify for insurance-based payments such as Jobseeker's Benefit and the State Pension (Contributory). If you look at the qualifying criteria for many social welfare payments, you will see that the requirements ask that you have a number of paid and/or credited contributions.
If a person does not continue to receive credits for a period of two or more years, his or her social insurance record becomes inactive for that period and he or she is no longer in the social insurance system. In order to get back into the system, a person must get a job and pay 26 weeks full rate PRSI contributions.
Details on the conditions for receipt of credits are contained in the leaflet itemised at the end of this document"