460 A1 credits, Ex Pat, Social Welfare Contributory Pension

hello,

A friend of mine, aged 62, living full time in USA has 460 Irish PRSI credits. He will never be coming back to Ireland to live or work.

As he's under 520 threshold limit (but above 260 credits), will he have any entitlement to a pro rata credit Irish Contributory state pension?

thanks

John

He would be entitled to an Irish pro rata pension. His US contributions will be taken into account for that.


Please note that there are contributions and credits in Ireland. You keep talking about credits here.
To get at least a part-pension in Ireland, you need 520 contributions. If you are short in that figure, you can bring the US contributions into play.
Irish credits will only be counted if your combined figure of US and Irish contributions is over 520 contributions.

Forumuser said:

Please note that there are contributions and credits in Ireland. You keep talking about credits here.
To get at least a part-pension in Ireland, you need at least 520 contributions. Irish credits will only be counted if your combined figure of US and Irish contributions is over 520 contributions.

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It's probably helpful to add the words PAID and RECKONABLE to the above information.

Thank you Foromuser and Marsupial for response. I will be reviewing the ssa.gov agreement.

Just wondering: in the USA, because I have 25 years credits plus working till I'm 40, so will have reasonable USA social security old age pension, if I try and include my USA credits to get better entitlement to Irish Contributory pension, will that diminish my USA retirement benefit?

thanks

John

I am not sure about this one. I found the following article- according to it you should be safe from any cutbacks in your US pension:

This looks interesting as well: