Ireland. Does Gweedore deserve a higher state pension than Glenageary?
If there’s one certainty you can expect to hear when you visit your local friendly pension adviser, it’s not to depend on the State pension and to provide for your retirement yourself.
Now Regina Doherty, Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, has upped the ante on the viability issue by declaring last week that it isn’t “fair” that some people are getting full State pensions which they may not need, while others on the same amount live in poverty.
Instead of all pensioners getting the same payments, and the same increases come budget time, Ms Doherty mooted that she could see a situation whereby a “lady in Donegal” might get more or less than a “lady somewhere else”.
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