Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 October 2024
381. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the State pension (non-contributory) and the State pension (contributory), broken down by their yearly average PRSI contributions and whether they qualified before or after 1 September 2012, in tabular form. [40996/24]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe figures requested by the Deputy are set out in the table below.
There were approximately 100,000 recipients of the State Pension (Non-Contributory) at 31 December 2023.
There were approximately 509,000 recipients of State Pension (Contributory) at 31 December 2023, of whom just under 165,000 qualified before 1 September 2012.
Not all State Pension awards can be categorised according to the level of yearly average contributions. The tabular breakdown below excludes State Pension (Non-Contributory) recipients, whose claims were assessed on a means-tested basis without reference to their social insurance record. Furthermore, the following categories of State Pension (Contributory) recipients are not included:
• automatic transfers from Invalidity Pension;
• awards under the Total Contributions Approach (or Aggregated Contributions Method);
• those with partial records outside of full social insurance (such as periods in other countries, paying modified rates of social insurance, or periods prior to 1953).
If State Pension Contributory awards under either the yearly-average or the Interim Total Contributions Approach are included, average rates of payment are:
• 94.7% of the maximum rate of State Pension for those who qualified prior to 1 September 2012 and
• 95.0% of the maximum rate of State Pension for those who qualified after 1 September 2012.
|
Yearly Average |
Qualified Pre 1 September 2012 |
Qualified Post 1 September 2012 |
|
48 or over |
67,736 |
123,495 |
|
40-47 |
21,533 |
|
|
30-39 |
20,453 |
|
|
20-29 |
21,182 |
|
|
20-47 |
40,612 |
|
|
15-19 |
7,016 |
8,336 |
|
10-14 |
8,414 |
3,503 |
The Deputy may also wish to note the following:
In order to determine the breakdown requested, the numbers of State Pension Contributory recipients include the most up-to-date data as at 30 September 2024 and will accordingly have slight differences from figures in my Department's forthcoming Annual Statistics report.
