As he does not seem to have any class A contributions throughout his working life there will not be any entitlement to a Contributory State Pension. He did not contribute to it. Class D contributions are NOT reckonable for Contributory Pension.
The only reason to sign on would be to protect the entitlement to a widow's pension for his wife should he pre-decease her.
What PRSI contribution class will he be paying on his local authority pension? Will this be enough to maintain the PRSI record for Widow's Pension purposes without needing to sign on for additional credits?
You might point 3 of this link re qualification for widows pension useful.
The only question here is which level of pension would be available to his widow in the event of her being pre-deceased by her husband.
She will certainly be entitled to a widows pension. At best 100% rate or at worst 98%. That is if the future Budgets or Pension legislation don't do a hatchet job and I don't have my crystal ball to day
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