Submission 123

March 2008

Green Paper Submission

A change with regards to the Administration of Old Age State Pension

Minister, would you consider radical change as regards administration of the State Old Age Pension?  The first step – everyone on reaching the age would receive the pension automatically.  The pension would be classed as income and therefore taxable so any person earning would mean that their pension would come back to the state. The benefits to your Department would be many like a dramatic decrease in the administration of the system.  No need to have all these people checking non contributory pensions etc. A system like this one operates in Canada. No Minister, I think, could be happy with the present cumbersome paper laden system.

 

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