Paid monthly, 4 PRSI stamps - where does the extra 4 come on board

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I've been paid monthly since Jan (part time work) and each payslip shows 4 PRSI stamps paid. I expected 5 this month as it was long. When do the extra 4 come on board to make up to 52 over the year ?
 
You need to contact the person who is in charge of the payroll department in your company to explain this.
Alternatively check out your revenue account and see how it looks there. It might show up correctly 1 PRSI contribution for every week of the year so far. If that is OK, you can relax: All those contributions will be reported by IR to SW in Buncrana and put on your PRSI record early next year.
 
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Prsi weeks begin on 1st January.
So for 2026 they begin on Thursdays and end on Wednesdays.
Did your part time employment include a minimum of €38 in each of these time periods since the beginning of 2026?
 
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Robovac rider said:
Did your part time employment include a minimum of €38 in each of these time periods since the beginning of 2026?
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I actually started in the first week in February but they were 4 every week since then and each month was more than €190 (5 x 38).
 
Towger said:
If paid Monthly you insurable weeks should run 5,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4.
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OK. So I should have got 5 in April and July. It's a small outfit so payroll is done thru a package. I'll ask revenue can they correct it thru ROS before I go looking for, ahem, 'HR'. Unfortunately I have to use ROS so finding anything on that related to regular work is a jungle.
 
What sort of hours and days do you work each week?
Do your workdays vary each week?

If for instance you worked on Thursday and Friday for one week and Tuesday and Wednesday of the next week, you would only qualify for 1 class A contribution for that 2 week period.
 
I'm paid by the hour and the slip just adds up the hours for the month but I work at least 1 day every week. Looking at the payslip again my Tax Status is Cumulative
 
If it's the same day each week you will definitely get 1 class A each week, but as above if your workdays vary you could miss out on class A contributions.
 
As @Robovac rider pointed out above, if you work irregular days each week it is easily possible to miss out on occasional PRSI "stamps". The PRSI week doesn't run on a standard calendar week basis (most years). For 2026 it is Thursday - Wednesday.
See here.
 
The number of weeks for PRSI on your payslip should reflect the number of weeks (based on the PRSI calendar) you worked in the month. For full time monthly paid employees this varies from month to month, but almost always totals to 13 weeks each quarter. So for any quarter it could be 5,4,4 or 4,5,4 or 4,4,5. If at this point you have 7 payslips for 2026 and they all show 4 weeks one of two thing is happening (1) the payslips are incorrect and you have not been credited for the additional week per quarter or (2) your part time status results in you missing a week some months. Your first port of call needs to be your payroll/HR function who should be able to resolve this. You could also talk to a full time colleague and ask them to check their payslips - this would give you a strong indication of which of the above scenarios apply in your case. It could simply be an input error by whoever administers your payroll.
 
Freelance said:
It could simply be an input error by whoever administers your payroll.
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This is, indeed, the issue. It's a one person operation with many hats one of which is payroll. I'm awaiting advice from revenue on how they can correct it. I'd assume they could re-enter/edit the return but given that it goes directly to revenue real-time I'm not sure they can.
 
Towger said:
If paid Monthly you insurable weeks should run 5,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4.
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I have just realised that December also has 5 Thursdays in it so should this be ignored or can I add one seeing as I missed out on January ? I'm pretty sure that if you include all that you can only get 52 credits for the year anyway.
 
elcato said:
I'm pretty sure that if you include all that you can only get 52 credits for the year anyway.
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The maximum number of credits/contributions that are reckonable for pension purposes is 52 for any one year. Even if you have more than 52 contributions/credits for a year only 52 will count for pension purposes.
 
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