John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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593. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of the full rate of contributory State pension who have made total contributions or credits of under 900, 900 to 1,200, 1,200 to 1,500, 1,500 to 1,800 and 1,800; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20296/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The statistics in the format requested by the Deputy are not available.

The determining factor of a person’s qualifying rate of entitlement to state pension (contributory) is the yearly average of the number of social insurance contributions, paid and credited, over the person’s working life. Maximum rate state pension (contributory) is payable where a yearly average of 48 or more contributions is achieved.

The number of persons currently in receipt of maximum rate state pension (contributory), based on a yearly average of 48 or more contributions, is 153,310.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.