Dáil debates
Friday, 9 December 2011
Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages
1:00 pm
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
Ireland requires three years' contribution from either spouse in order to qualify for a widow's pension. In terms of the demographics, people might know that three years' contribution for a widow's or widower's pension is a very small number of contributions and is one of the reasons our social insurance fund is in such deficit. The number of contributions for other people for the contributory old age pension was defined back in 1997 to go up to 520 contributions.
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