Submission 322

May 2008

Green Paper submission

I am a 77 year old man. For the past number of years I have been in receipt of just half the contributory pension. This is despite the fact that I made eight PRSI contributions.  At my age I feel I’m entitled to the full contributory pension.

In addition my wife is only receiving a minute portion of her pension every week.

Between us this total weekly amount is not enough to survive on.

We feel that after working so hard throughout our lives and paying all our due taxes the Irish pensions system has now left us in an extremely vulnerable position in our old age.

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