Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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390. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons affected by the recent decision to abolish the State pension transition for persons in receipt of invalidity pension. [9208/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Invalidity pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work due to illness or injury and who satisfy the PRSI contribution conditions.

IP recipients will continue to transfer automatically from IP to a state pension contributory (SPC) at age 66 which is currently paid at the maximum weekly personal rate of €230.30.

With regard to the numbers of IP recipients who may be affected by the decision to discontinue State Pension Transition (SPT) the position for 2014 is that, based on a total number of 53,222 invalidity recipients in payment on 31 January 2014, an approximate total of 4,300 of these (who are still in receipt of IP and who reach the age of 65 between 2 January 2014 and 31 December 2014) will continue to be paid up to the maximum weekly IP rate of €193.50 while they are between the age of 65 and 66.