Pensions if you worked in the EU?

tek-monkey

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My wife has a varied work record, covering a few countries, and we have no idea how her pension will work. Ignoring stuff outside the EU, anyone know how 7 years of Irish tax paying will count? Their pension is so much better than ours, but am I right in thinking you're stuck claiming in the last EU country you worked and those years are 'lost'? She needs 10 to claim there anyway, but even if she got to 15 years Irish that's similar to 35 years of uk pension!

If she got a job in Ireland for 3 more years can she claim both? Can you claim 2 pensions? Just seems a bit if a waste, unless I'm misunderstanding?
 

Thehooperman

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According to gov.uk you can only claim from the last country you worked in but it may be worth checking for any non EEA countries to see if she can claim from them as well.


 

tek-monkey

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According to gov.uk you can only claim from the last country you worked in but it may be worth checking for any non EEA countries to see if she can claim from them as well.


Yeah, the way I understood it was you could work 30 years somewhere in the eu, move to the uk and those 30 years count towards entitlement but not what you receive. Looks like the 30 years are wasted?
 

BobClay

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Yeah, the way I understood it was you could work 30 years somewhere in the eu, move to the uk and those 30 years count towards entitlement but not what you receive. Looks like the 30 years are wasted?

I don't remember that bit of information being written on the side of the 'Battle Bus.' :grr:

(We're going to be mired in Boris Bullshit for decades to come.) :facepalm:
 

tek-monkey

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the uk should in the example above fund the 30 years from the EU country, but shouldn't you be entitles to claim it from the country you paid? In our case 7 years won't get anything anyway, but as she'll never hit full uk pension I was hoping we could get her 3 years in Ireland somehow to get their minimum (which is still 2/3 of our maximum)
 
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