Meanings of contributory state in English

BARRY and Siobhan are a retired couple surviving on Barry's small occupational pension and their contributory state pension.

I'm due to get my contributory State pension from June this year.

The contributory State pension is a key component of the retirement income for people.

Simply stated, there are non-contributory and contributory State pensions.

That will leave retired employees without State pension support until the Contributory State Pension kicks in at 66.

There were two good reasons why the eligibility age for the contributory State pension was extended in 2014.

What I mean is does this affect the way any other contributory State pension is to be calculated.

Most importantly, it was a condition of their employment that they would never qualify for a contributory State pension.

To qualify for the contributory State pension you must have started paying social insurance before reaching 56 years of age.

The contributory State pension currently starts paying out from age 66 onwards to people who have made enough social insurance contributions.

The aim is to ensure the contributory State pension stays pegged at a value of just over one-third of average earnings.

Far and away the biggest revision envisaged in the roadmap, however, is the introduction of auto-enrolment to the contributory State pension scheme.

Sir, -The fact that the Government changed the rules for the age of entitlement to the contributory State pension has gone largely unnoticed.

Greater flexibility is to be allowed in retirement decisions, including the deferral of the contributory State pension and clarification around mandatory retirement age provisions.

The Progressive Democrats (PDs) have promised to raise the standard contributory State pension to €200 per week if they are returned to Government.

About 900,000 workers in the private sector have no pension arrangement at all to look forward to on retirement, other than the contributory State pension.