Farmers & Pensions

This area is all new to me but I'm trying to help an elderly uncle.

He's been a bachelor farmer all his life but age has caught up and he can no longer manage the work.

I'm not sure if he has any sort of pension in place, & to be honest I would be shocked if he had!

I'm just wondering what he would be entitled to, ie state pension etc , if he retired.

as far as i know he would be entitled to the state pension. and you never know those farmers can be fairly savy, especially if he had an accountant do his returns all these years.

He can apply for the means-tested state pension (old age). If he is still farming, his income will be assessed but some will be disregarded. Every individual case is different. Check out www.welfare.ie for details as to how income is assessed. I think there is also some sort of retirement scheme for farmers who transfer land to others.