Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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779. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to issues in respect of retired nurses who have paid A stamps towards their pension when returning to work during the Covid-19 crisis, whereby they ceased to be entitled to their pension once they started working to help out during the Covid-19 pandemic. [4026/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Following enquiries by my Department it was confirmed that the Deputy refers in her question to the supplementary pension.

A supplementary pension is not a public service occupational pension but rather a payment which may be made by a public service employer, in certain circumstances, to a retiree who paid Class A PRSI when employed and whose occupational pension is co-ordinated with the State Pension Contributory (SPC).

There are a number of specific conditions that must be satisfied in order to claim supplementary pension, one of which is that the retired individual is unemployed. Where the retiree takes up employment post retirement supplementary pension is not payable.