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Qualifying for Social Insurance Payments Page Content Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) contributions are needed to qualify for social insurance payments. To qualify for payment, you must have enough weeks of PRSI contributions to satisfy these conditions. The PRSI weeks must also be paid or credited at the appropriate rate or class. For most social insurance benefits, you must satisfy two conditions. You must first have a minimum number of weeks of PRSI contributions paid. This means that you must have worked and PRSI must have been paid for you for that number of weeks. These weeks do not have to be continuous. They can be paid at any time during your working life. A second condition is that you must have a minimum number of weeks of PRSI contributions paid and/or credited in the Relevant Tax Year. These conditions vary depending on the benefit you are claiming. The Relevant Tax Year is the second last complete Tax Year before the Benefit Year in which you claim. For a claim made in Benefit Year 2008 the relevant Tax Year is 2006 For a claim made in Benefit Year 2009 the relevant Tax Year is 2007 For a claim made in Benefit Year 2010 the relevant Tax Year is 2008 The Benefit Year begins on the first Monday in January each year. The Tax Year starts from the 1st January each year (from 1st January 2002 onwards). Normally, your entitlement to a Retirement or State Pension (Contributory) depends on having an average number of weeks PRSI paid and/or credited every year from 1979 or alternatively over your working life. Because an average number of PRSI contributions are used, a shortage of weeks in one year can be made up in another. However, you will need a yearly average of 48 weeks to get a full pension. The PRSI conditions differ for Widow's or Widower's (Contributory) and Invalidity Pensions. Since April 1994, if you left the workforce to provide full-time care and attention for a child(ren) or a person who is ill, you may have these years disregarded when the yearly average number of PRSI contributions for State Pension (Contributory) is being calculated. To benefit from this scheme (the Homemakers Scheme), you must have worked and paid PRSI previously (or may do so in the future) at Class A, E, H and S (See booklet SW 1 for further information). Not enough Weeks PRSI ? You will not qualify for benefits if you do not have enough weeks of PRSI contributions on your record. It is very important that: - you make sure that you have a PPS No. and that your employer knows your number so that your PRSI contributions are added to your record - you send in a claim for the periods you are out of work because of illness or unemployment to help keep your record up-to-date through "credits". You may also be entitled to credits if you are on unpaid statutory maternity or paternity leave. - you consider paying Voluntary PRSI contributions if you leave the workforce for a time - if you are self-employed, make sure that you pay your full contributions otherwise you will not get any contributions for the year. IF YOU DO NOT QUALIFY FOR A SOCIAL INSURANCE PAYMENT, YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO A SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PAYMENT INSTEAD Last modified:22/01/2009
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I gcoitinne, tá íocaíochtaí ón Roinn Gnóthaí Fostaíochta agus Coimirce Sóisialaí comhdhéanta d’íocaíochtaí árachais shóisialaigh (bunaithe ar ranníocaíochtaí ÁSPC) agus d’íocaíochtaí cúnaimh shóisialaigh (bunaithe ar thástáil acmhainne). D’fhéadfadh sé a bheith mar thoradh ar phatrúin phostroinnte áirithe go mbeadh ní ba lú ranníocaíochtaí ÁSPC agat. D’fhéadfadh sé seo dul i bhfeidhm ar do theidlíocht ar íocaíochtaí leasa shóisialaigh áirithe. Is de réir na hAicme ÁSPC lena mbaineann tú a chuireann tú leis an gcumhdach i gcomhair na n-íocaíochtaí leasa shóisialaigh aonair thar thréimhsí éagsúla ama. Braitheann na híocaíochtaí seo a leanas ar thaifead do ranníocaíochtaí ÁSPC agus ar choinníollacha cáiliúcháin eile: - Sochar Cuardaitheora Poist, - Sochar Breoiteachta, - Sochar Máithreachais, - Sochar Uchtaíoch, - Sochar Atharthachta, - Sochar Sláinte agus Sábháilteachta, - Pinsean Easláine, - Pinsean Baintrí, Baintrí Fir nó Páirtnéara Shibhialta Mharthanaigh (Ranníocach)*, - Íocaíocht Chaomhnóra (Ranníocach)*, - Pinsean Stáit (Ranníocach), - Sochar Cóireála, - Sochar Díobhálacha Ceirde*, agus - Sochar Cúramóra*. Cuirtear na híocaíochtaí seo go léir ar fáil má shealbhaíonn tú ranníocaíochtaí ÁSPC Aicme A agus má chomhlíonann tú na coinníollacha cáiliúcháin eile a bhaineann le gach íocaíocht nó gach sochar. * Má shealbhaíonn tú ranníocaíochtaí ÁSPC Aicme B, C nó D, is féidir go gcáileoidh tú do na híocaíochtaí seo - ar chuntar go gcomhlíonann tú na coinníollacha cáiliúcháin eile. Chun go gcáileoidh tú don chuid is mó d’íocaíochtaí gearrthréimhseacha árachais shóisialaigh, caithfidh tú iad seo a shealbhú: agus - 104 ranníocaíocht ÁSPC íoctha ó thosaigh tú ag obair - 39 ranníocaíocht ÁSPC íoctha nó curtha chun sochair sa bhliain chánach ábhartha, agus ní mór 13 cinn díobh siúd a bheith ina ranníocaíochtaí íoctha. Mura bhfuil 13 ranníocaíocht íoctha sa bhliain chánach ábhartha agat, ansin is féidir ina ionad sin feidhm a bhaint as 13 ranníocaíocht íoctha i gceann de na blianta cánach seo a leanas: nó - Ceachtar den dá bhliain chánach roimh an mbliain chánach ábhartha - An bhliain chánach iomlán dheireanach (roimh an mbliain ina dtosaíonn d’éileamh ar Shochar Breoiteachta) - An bhliain chánach reatha - 26 ranníocaíocht ÁSPC íoctha nó curtha chun sochair sa bhliain chánach ábhartha agus 26 ranníocaíocht ÁSPC íoctha sa bhliain chánach roimh an mbliain chánach ábhartha. Is í an bhliain chánach ábhartha ná an bhliain chánach iomlán leathdhéanach roimh an mbliain sochair ina ndéanann tú d’éileamh. I dtaca le 2018, is í an bhliain chánach ábhartha ná Tosaíonn an bhliain sochair ar an gcéad Luan i Mí Eanáir. Thairis sin, éilíonn íocaíochtaí fadtréimhseacha árachais shóisialaigh (mar shampla: Pinsean Baintrí, Baintrí Fir nó Páirtnéara Shibhialta Mharthanaigh (Ranníocach), Pinsean Stáit (Ranníocach), srl.) go sealbhaíonn tú íoslíon ranníocaíochtaí ÁSPC íoctha chun cáiliú dóibh, chomh maith le meánmhéid bliantúil de ranníocaíochtaí íoctha agus curtha chun sochair a shroicheadh thar thréimhse fhada.