With a growing life expectancy and evermore active lifestyles available to retirees in Ireland today, planning where to source your income in retirement is vital. While state pensions play an important role in assisting retired citizens’ financial wellbeing, they are often not enough to provide without any other contribution. [...]
Table of Contents What is Superannuation? Superannuation in Ireland What Public Service Scheme do I Belong to? Alternatives to Superannuation Pension Plan What is Superannuation Often referred to as a company pension plan, a superannuation fund is a [...]
Irish Life advises individuals and companies on all aspects of pension planning. Their pension funds return consistent growth, with average returns of 10.3% over the last three years. ( Source ) What lies behind the Irish Life Pension story? What plans do they offer, and are their fees acceptable? [...]
Pension inequality refers to the idea that people face different pension outcomes when they reach pension age, regardless of how hard they may have worked in their career. Some people will have to rely solely on the State pension while others have a large pension pot saved for their [...]
The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is the pension plan for all Irish public servants. Introduced in 2013, it replaced existing pension schemes for new entrants to the public service. One of the ideas behind the scheme is to make retirement planning for public servants a lot easier. When [...]
Table of Contents What is widow’s pension? How much is a widows pension in Ireland Can I receive the State pension and the widow’s pension? Who Qualifies for a widows pension Do I have to have made tax contributions? Do I need [...]
About the Teachers Pension in Ireland Pensions are big news at the moment. Every sector of Irish society is having a say on their pension schemes, and no more so than teachers. The teacher's pension is thought to be a very good one, and is seen as one of [...]
A Master Trust is a relatively new structure that was setup under EU legislation. Called IOIRP II, it is a wide-ranging directive that seeks to harmonize pension scheme management across the European Union. It was adopted at the EU level in 2016 and in 2021 it was signed into [...]
Table of Contents What is a PRSA? Are there different types of PRSA? What is a standard PRSA? What is a non-standard PRSA? What are funds? Types of funds that are used by pension providers Why start a PRSA? [...]
Anyone who has worked in Ireland will receive a State pension. It is based on reaching a threshold of PRSI payments (Pay Related Social Insurance payments) and there are contingencies for those who have not reached this threshold. This could be because they were working abroad paying social insurance [...]
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