Written answers
Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Public Sector Pensions
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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218. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if she plans to review the rules of the supplementary pension whereby, if a person takes up any paid employment of any duration, they would lose the entire supplementary element of their pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17687/24]
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy may be aware, I have overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants.
Since 6 April 1995, all newly-appointed public servants became fully insured under the Social Insurance System (pay Class A PRSI). A public servant paying Class A PRSI will receive both an occupational pension and, it is assumed, they will also be entitled to the maximum rate of the State Pension Contributory (SPC). This is known as ‘integration’, and is also sometimes referred to as 'coordination', it is not unique to the public service.
In respect of public servants, their pension payment comprises of three components:
1. Public Service Occupational Pension payable by the public service employer;Where a public servant does not qualify for the SPC or qualifies for a Social Insurance benefit at less than the value of the SPC they may be entitled to an occupational supplementary pension, subject to eligibility criteria, including the retired public servant shall not be in paid employment and:
2. Social Insurance Benefit(s) (State Pension Contributory (SPC), Jobseeker’s Benefit etc.), payable, subject to eligibility, by the Department of Social Protection; and
3. Where the full rate of SPC is not payable, a supplementary pension equivalent to a non-integrated pension, which is payable, subject to eligibility, by the public service employer.
- fails to qualify for Social Insurance Benefit or
- qualifies for Social Insurance Benefit at a reduced rate and
- has reached minimum pension age or is in receipt of an ill-health pension.
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