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A Kilkenny woman in her 70s this week lost a High Court case to prevent her family from being evicted from their home.

When you move from one job to another, what becomes of your pension benefit? Have you left pension benefits behind you when you left or changed employment?

The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation said government can afford to pay the cost of teachers’ pensions. The union criticised what it called plans by government to walk away from any responsibility for pensions.

A High Court judge has granted a house repossession order against a Kilkenny couple who have six children.

While the campaign to stop any cuts for pensions proved successful in the four year recovery plan, Age Action has expressed its disappointment that the Government has ‘agreed to freeze the rate of the State pension until 2015, as part of the bailout deal it has reached with the IMF and the EU’.

Recent analysis by European insurer Aviva has shown that people in Mayo need to save an additional €9,100 a year to live adequately in retirement. Mayo’s annual pensions savings gap, the difference between what is currently being saved and expectations for retirement, stands at €550 million, the equivalent of an average €758 per capita per month of working age or €9,100 a year. These are among the findings of a comprehensive analysis of Ireland’s retirement landscape to date by the company.

In these exceptionally difficult times, it is absolutely necessary that your business is equipped with the most effective ways of maintaining cashflow. The most common problem facing many businesses at the moment is that outstanding bills are not being discharged in a timely fashion, or at all. How then do you go about ensuring that this problem is banished from your business? One of the most efficient ways of doing this is by commencing debt collection proceedings against the company or individual. Developing a reputation for being proactive about the collection of fees or invoices owed to you can be no bad thing, as it will foster a culture of immediate payment by your clients because they will be aware that if they dont pay, you will follow them for it and not simply brush that fee note under the carpet!

Dear Editor,

Research conducted for AIB by RED C Research shows that 73 per cent of adults without a private pension say they would need to supplement the state pension to maintain their current lifestyle, while 54 per cent of adults who are saving for a private pension have no idea what income this is likely to provide.

With the 65 years of age cut-off point long associated with retirement now being called more into question as people continue to live and work longer, a new definition is now being sought for retirement. According to research presented this week at the Retirement Planning Council of Ireland Conference at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, four out of 10 people coming up to retirement have now expressed a desire to continue working after they leave their current job, whether for money or as volunteers. RPCI CEO John Higgins has now called for a new way to define the concept of retirement in terms, not just of economic gain, but also for social gain.