Thank you for you reply back. Yes I have checked, and the 7 year UK contributions can definitely be taken into account for Irish state pension calculation. But if I use those years to be taken into account for the Irish state pension, then perhaps I cannot use them against calculation for reduce UK state pension. This is the part I am hoping to clarify.As far as I know your 7 years can be added to your Irish contributions. There are big changes in qualifying for the contributory pension in Ireland - see citizens information website, age you first contributed, average of paid contributions . You can buy contributions but you must have 520 paid and it appears that it must be from the first week after you leave compulsory insurance. Get citizens information to check it out for you.
Thank you for the reply back. I did some research for this also, and I can be in receipt of both Irish and UK state pensions, albeit it will be a reduced UK state pension.Do a search of some threads here. I have heard some contradictory advice. Some say that you can't claim both state pensions, others saying that they are in receipt of both.
Question 2. No, I think you are too late to top up for those years in either jurisdiction. UK currently allows you to top up from 2007 to current years. You definitely can get both pensions (my husband does). The only issue is where you buy back years from the UK (given they only allow you to buy back recent years) that you already have a full Irish contribution for. That's where some people are saying they have done this and they got both pensions paid, others are wondering will they ever see a return on the buyback? I have recently decided to do a buy back myself, but I still think it is to some extent unclear.
Currently, to get the minimum State Pension in Ireland you need a minimum of 520 weekly contributions (10 years). To get the maximum State Pension is currently a more complicated calculation requiring an average yearly contribution history of 48 pa from when you first stated paying PRSI. However it is proposed to change the calculation model over the next few years to a 1/40th of the State Pension for each year of contribution. Whether this will go ahead or not is unclear currently.Hello, I also need some direction on this issue. Am I correct in that to get the Full Irish State Pension you need 520 monthly contributions?
I am in a position in which I have UK contributions and citizenship for a period up to 2012, enough to get a minimum pension. I then had 4 years of United States Social Security, lastly my contributions in Ireland only first started at age 30 in 2016.
I was planning to reach out to UK to see if I could get US contributions recognised in the UK, but my base assumption was that I would get both a UK pension and an Irish pension at retirement.
Is there anything I need to do to ensure I get an Irish State pension given 520 contributions is 40 years, and I hope to retire prior to that.
I have just gone through this process myself. Very simple process to obtain projection, they specify the missing years.
The key benefit is that as a non resident you pay class 2 national insurance rates rather than the more expensive class 3
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