Letter to the Editor: Some are forced to wait a decade for pension...

I read with great interest the promises made by various political parties to appease the ‘grey vote’ in the general election: “FG and FF back transition payment for those retired before qualifying for State pension” (The Irish Times, January 22).

Since 2009, an agreement has been in place to pay all post-1995 military officers on full PRSI who are forcibly retired on age grounds at age 58 a supplementary pension (as long as the pensioner is not, before age 65, in insurable employment).