Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 April 2014
289. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Social Protection to set out the estimated cost to her Department this year of persons who will be pensioned off at 65 years from State employment and will apply for jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16146/14]
View answerIt is estimated that a weekly average of 5,200 people aged 65 will be in receipt of either jobseeker’s benefit or allowance in 2014. However, data on the number of persons aged 65 who may apply for jobseeker’s benefit this year and who are in receipt of a pension arising from employment in the civil and public service is not available. It should be noted that permanent and pensionable civil and public servants recruited prior to April 1995 are not covered under the social insurance system for entitlement to jobseeker’s benefit. Accordingly, such employees who retire at age 65 would not be entitled to that benefit.
