Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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1220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is not in receipt of a full State pension. [46167/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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According to the Department’s records, the person concerned has a social insurance record of 1822 reckonable contributions and credits. They are in receipt of a reduced rate state pension (contributory) based on an assessed yearly average of 36 contributions, covering the period from August 1966 to December 2015. The person concerned is in receipt of the correct rate of contributory pension based on this record.

The Department’s records show that there are gaps in the person’s insurance record for the years 1971, from 1979/80 to 1981/82, from 1984/85 to 1988/89 and from 1991/92 to 1992/93. These gaps impact on the person’s overall yearly average and consequently on their rate of weekly pension entitlement.

If the person concerned considers they have additional contributions or credits that have not been recorded, it is open to the person concerned to forward documentary evidence of the missing periods of employment to my Department and their pension entitlement will be reviewed.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.