Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 December 2016
315. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that are in receipt of pensions from other EU or EEA states as notified to his Department in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date, by country, and who are also in receipt of a non-contributory pension from his Department, in tabular form. [39777/16]
View answerThe only data formally notified to the Department by another EU/EAA State on this matter is from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the United Kingdom. Since 2014, DWP sends the Department a complete list each year of the people residing in the State who are in receipt of a British Retirement Pension. This list is then matched against the Department’s records to identify those who are in receipt of an Irish State pension non-contributory.
The following table sets out, for each year since 2014, the number of such cases notified to the Department and the total number of those still in receipt of State pension non-contributory at end-November 2016.
|
Year |
Cases notified |
Still in payment at end November, 2016 |
|
2016 |
10,250 |
10,119 |
|
2015 |
10,132 |
9,241 |
|
2014 |
9,382 |
7,838 |
