Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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243. 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. [48452/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned is in receipt of a reduced rate state pension (contributory) based on an assessed yearly average of 37 contributions, covering the period from November 1966 to December 2015.

According to the records of my Department, the person has a social insurance record of 1850 reckonable contributions and credits. The person concerned is in receipt of the correct rate of contributory pension based on this social insurance record.

The person has no recorded contributions for the tax years 1974/75 to 1983/84, and for 2008, which impacts on the person’s overall yearly average and, consequently, on their rate of weekly pension entitlement. If the person concerned considers they have additional unrecorded contributions or credits, it is open to them to forward documentary evidence of missing periods of employment and my Department will review their pension entitlement.

Similarly, if the person has previously un-notified home-making periods from 6thApril 1994 spent out of the workforce caring for a child under the age of 12, or incapacitated person(s), the person should provide those details to my Department.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.