Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions
Equality and Fairness of State Pension: (Resumed) Discussion
4:00 pm
Mr. Fergus Whelan:
There is nothing transparent about what is going on here, but I gather the current practice is that if anyone retired last year and had no pension entitlement, they would get the jobseeker's allowance and the provision requiring them to be seeking work has not been applied. Although it is rather difficult to pin down, I also understand that they get it for 12 months rather than the nine months to which they are entitled.
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