Major Rule Change - 5 April 2026 Until 5 April 2026: Eligible from as little as 3 years of UK contributions. From 6 April 2026: You will generally need at least 10 years of contributions to qualify. If you have 3-9 years of UK contributions: [...]
There have been many changes to Irish pensions over the past couple of years, and there are more to follow in 2026. These changes are all broadly aimed at improving the pension coverage of our ageing population, improving access to and raising the state contributory pension, and paying for [...]
The Irish General election held on 29 November to elect the 34th Dáil saw 686 candidates compete for 174 seats across 43 constituencies. While pensions did not feature heavily as a debate topic during the election campaign, a number of high-profile sitting TDs decided to retire, putting the issue [...]
Women are much less likely than men to put money towards their pension pot, partly because they earn less on average, leading to a major disparity between the amount of retirement income received by men and women. This has led to calls for the new auto-enrolment pension scheme to [...]
A recent report comparing pension systems in 48 countries has placed Ireland at 18th, down 5 places in a year. While Ireland still ranks highly, Ireland’s index value fell from 70.2 to 68.1 in the report by the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, which covers almost two thirds [...]
A massive backlog has meant that many Irish people who worked in the UK could be waiting up to a year and a half to receive their British pension top-up. More than 250,000 Irish people may be due to benefit from a significant pension boost, pushing their pension from [...]
Heather Humphries, the Minister for Social Protection, has announced the new name for Ireland’s long awaited auto enrolment pension scheme. My Future Fund has been chosen as the “easy to remember” moniker, a move intended to make clear the purpose of the pension savings scheme ie. to save and [...]
Budget 2025 has been widely advertised as offering “the largest social welfare package in the history of the State, providing €2.6 billion to assist households”. While these seemingly “populist” budgets may prove beneficial when it comes to the polling stations, there’s a real question mark around whether they actually [...]
A recent survey carried out by Royal London Ireland, who provide pensions, personal and business protection in Ireland, looked at respondents’ expectations around funding their retirement. The survey results suggested that almost half of the survey respondents (45%) expect their sixties to be the most expensive decade of their [...]
It is widely acknowledged that Pay related social insurance reforms are required to maintain the age of State pension entitlement at 66, as well as finance social welfare reforms such as pay- related social welfare benefits. The Government has laid out a PRSI roadmap in order to phase in [...]
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