Summer jobs in childhood can come back to bite at pension time Q&A: New way of assessing eligibility for State pension will remove some of the unfairness of the current system ByDominic CoyleTue Feb 20 2024 - 05:00 Can a widow benefit from pension she forgot to claim 25 years ago?
In order to assess people's preferences regarding potential reforms of the Irish state pension system, we surveyed a sample of the Irish adult population about their opinion on a selection of measures and issues related to the redistributive principles and parameters of the pension scheme. Even tho...
Further increase in old age pension in next Budget, Taoiseach pledges Exact amount has not been decided but there will ‘certainly’ be a rise, Leo Varadkar tells Dáil BySarah BurnsTue May 23 2023 - 16:01 My mother-in-law claimed a widow’s pension for first husband while married to he...
The payouts, which include €144 million handed over in March, eclipse the €1.3 billion that Canada’s Great-West Lifeco paid for the Republic’s largest life and pensions group in 2013 when it bought the business from the State. Irish Life Group, the holding company at the top of the ...
It’s one thing for RTE to buy in overseas content made for an international market, quite another to produce its own material – using considerable amounts of public money – with similarly ‘international’ ambitions, if the need to serve international markets undermines that public service ...
The State Library of New South Wales is offering Irish Australians the opportunity to attend a free Tracing Irish Ancestry workshop. The workshop will provide an introduction to resources including electronic, books and original materials, some of which will be available to browse. A tour of the...
The Irish Human Rights Commission has also taken an active role in urging the state to act. It is hoped that the former residents of the Magdalene Laundries will receive, at the least, apologies and compensation or pension benefits for their unpaid labor. New York AG Investigating Donald Trump...
up to the undeniable truth that the Palestinian “plight” is not only bogus but also entirely self inflicted…..and that the real obstacle to peace has always been (and will always be) their own psychopathic refusal to accept the existence of the world’s only self defined Jewish state…....
PHIL Hogan is at the centre of a heated controversy over the huge amount of taxpayers' money being spent on Irish Water with little or no apparent supervision. Opposition TDs are calling on the Minister to appear before the Environment Committee this week to explain the [euro]50m that has ...
Mr Gunning accused BAM of using the hospital as a “hostage” to secure more funding from the State. The contractor is claiming an additional €748 million, with 18 claims making up 80 per cent of that amount. Despite BAM claiming this figure, the net change ...