# Pensioners
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Last year
2023
Voices
Analysis: Older people are vulnerable to poverty - more should have been done for them
Mary Murphy
Updated
10 Oct 2023
12.8k
19
budget 2024
Double child benefit 'worked well' last year, says minister as repeat flagged for Budget 2024
17 Jul 2023
25.3k
53
All time
pension age
Pension age to stay at 66, but higher payments for those who continue to work
Updated
20 Sep 2022
66.9k
57
Retirement
Proposals on possible pension age increase to go to Govt before summer recess, says minister
8 Jun 2022
36.3k
50
Cork
Paramedics set up GoFundMe page to assist elderly siblings robbed at knife point
14 Feb 2022
46.6k
20
state pension
ESRI: Those who live alone are at greater risk of falling below the poverty line when they retire
21 Jul 2020
9.4k
4
Voices
Opinion: Signing on the dole as a pensioner was a horrible experience
Sue Redmond
22 Jan 2020
55.0k
185
rent hike
Some pensioners in South Dublin to be hit with council house rent rise of more than €600
22 Nov 2019
34.9k
67
Cork City
'We must be more vigilant': Body of pensioner lay undiscovered in house for seven months
22 Jul 2019
38.4k
15
austerity measure
'A recovery for whom?': Government slammed for refusal to reintroduce free passport for pensioners
2 Jan 2019
31.3k
94
telephone allowance
Some pensioners to begin getting €130 a year phone bill allowance to prevent 'social isolation'
6 Jun 2018
18.7k
34
marriage bar
'I never cost the State a penny, but now they're taking part of my pension'
18 Jan 2018
59.8k
53
money in the pocket
The pension is definitely going up and Micheál Martin has dismissed claims he's opposed to rises
30 Jul 2017
38.9k
66
Anthony Connors
Serial burglar who targets pensioners sentenced to 144 years in prison over his criminal career
16 Mar 2017
32.7k
Age Action
Irish pensioners made to choose between heat and food need extra €5 a week
21 Sep 2015
22.2k
63
promises
People on the dole to see 50% increase in their Christmas bonus this year
14 Sep 2015
40.2k
143
Pensioners
Oscar and Costa strike as leaders Chelsea take advantage of Man City's slip-up
10 Jan 2015
2.6k
Voices
Opinion: You’re never too old to talk – so don't overlook older people's mental health
Shane Kelly
10 Oct 2014
208
10
Christmas Bonus
Pensioners are now having to 'choose between food and fuel and medication'
8 Oct 2014
6.2k
28
community spirit
€10,000 reward offered for information on gang attacking pensioners in Donegal
14 Feb 2014
10.1k
28
Voices
Column: Pitting one section of the Irish people against another weakens us all
Peter Kavanagh
25 Oct 2013
68
32
Budget 2014
Noonan: 'No connection' between cuts for pensioners & free GP care for under 5s
15 Oct 2013
3.9k
31
Pensions
Cut in private pension tax break could facilitate universal pension for all over 65s
16 Sep 2013
6.2k
24