I had summer Jobs well before I began full time employment paying PSRI tax etc, so think its a little unfair that the clock starts ticking for me back then even though I would have gone to third level and been in and out of employment for a while.
I now realise he did me a favour.
They have records going back to 1999 for me.Would the Social Welfare even have records going back I wonder?
But is it correct (or right) that if someone never works that they get almost the same pension as someone who has worked all their lives? Would the lady mentioned above have a higher pension if she never worked at all? (under the current rules)
That's crazy.Just did some calculations on my only person situation. I started work full time at 24 with no gaps since. If I work full-time continuously between now and 67, I will still not have enough contributions under the current system to get the full state pension, despite having 43 years of Class A contributions.
On the other hand, if someone arrives into the country, starts work at 37, and works continuously until they are 67, they will get the full state pension despite having contributed 13 years Class A stamps than me.
I suppose you have to decide if circa €124k over a 10 year period is worth demeaning yourself for.We could have transferred most of our joint savings into my name, but it would demean her, so we decided not to claim the benefit. As a consequence, all we get is my single person's OAP.
I agree. The Indo's "makey-uppy" reporting and the discussion here about something Paschal DIDN'T say is truly bonkers. More fake news and even faker discussion.The problem is that this, and consequently the headline, and indeed the title of this thread, is simply not true. What he actually said was that the rule that required women to give up paid employment when they got married was bonkers.
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