I’m still confused about a UK pensions article you wrote some time back. The person had 20 years of contributions and it takes 35 years to get a full pension – so a difference of 15 years. Are you saying that if she now pays Class 3 contributions of £956.80 for the next 15 years (costing her not too far off £15k), she will have that £15k back after drawing the pension for two years and eight months? RO’NIt all seems a bit fantastic but, in pure maths terms, that is exactly how it works. However, there are a couple of “real world” issues you need to take into account that will skew that simplicity. We will come to that in a bit but first let’s crunch the numbers. Hundreds of thousands of Irish people - possibly millions - have spent time working in the UK at some point in…
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