Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons within each of the six payment bands who are in receipt of the State pension (contributory). [8462/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The six rates bands came into existence at the start of September 2012 for persons with a date of birth after 31^stof August 1946. At the end of January 2018 there were 395,091 people in receipt of state pension (contributory) in total and of these 153,355 were in receipt of payment based on the six rate bands from September 2012. The number of claimants in each of these rate bands is:

I hope this clarifies matters for the Deputy.