Information Booklets

What are my pension options?

This booklet provides information on the types of pension plans you can use to save for retirement, ie, company pensions, personal pensions, PRSAs and State retirement pensions.

What are my pension options?

Investment risk, fees & charges checklist

Questions to ask about how investment risk, fees and charges affect your pension.

Investment risk, fees and charges checklist

Women and pensions

This booklet describes the ways in which women can provide financial security for themselves and their dependants in retirement. It addresses issues of particular interest to women such as maternity leave, career breaks and re-entering the workforce.

Women and pensions

What happens to my pension if I leave?

This booklet provides a guide to preservation and transfer of benefits and is intended for people who are thinking of changing jobs or have already done so.

What happens to my pension if I leave?

Pensions checklist

This checklist provides information and a questionnaire to help you start planning for your retirement.

Pensions checklist

PRSAs – Employers’ obligations

This booklet describes employers' legal obligations with regard to Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs).

PRSAs - Employers obligations

PRSAs – A consumer guide

This booklet shows you how to approach, search, apply for, and monitor your PRSA. It contains Frequently Asked Questions on PRSAs and is jointly produced by the Consumer Association of Ireland and The Pensions Board.

PRSAs - A consumer guide

What to you know about your pension scheme?

What do you know about your pension scheme?

This booklet provides an overview of the information which trustees and employers must provide in relation to occupational pension schemes.

What do you know about your pension scheme?

A guide to your scheme’s annual report

This booklet is intended to help you to understand what is required of scheme trustees in relation to annual reports and audited accounts (where applicable), your rights to see and receive copies and what these should contain and to explain in brief the significance of the information you will find there.

A guide to your scheme's annual report

So you’re a pension scheme trustee

This booklet gives concise guidance on trustees' duties and responsibilities and includes helpful definitions.

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Pension scheme funding and restructuring

This booklet has been prepared to assist trustees and scheme members who may be involved in pension scheme funding or restructuring.

Pension scheme funding and restructuring

Selecting member trustees

This booklet provides a brief guide to how and why occupational pension schemes are set up as trusts, the role of trustees, eligibility to participate in their selection, the options for members and employers and the procedures involved.

Selecting member trustees

	Trustee and employer checklists On-the-spot fines These checklists help trustees and employers ensure that they do not incur any on-the-spot fines. Trustee and employer checklists On-the-spot fines
	Annuities - A brief guide This booklet includes information on what annuities are, how they work and what annuity options are available. Annuities - A brief guide
	Integration - A brief guide This booklet provides guidance on the integration of occupational pension scheme benefits with the benefits payable under the social welfare system. Integration - A brief guide
	A brief guide to equal pension treatment This booklet provides guidance on the principle of equal pension treatment, discrimination and victimisation in relation to occupational pension schemes. A brief guide to equal pension treatment
	A brief guide to the pension provisions of the Family Law Acts This booklet provides information to a person who is seeking, or has obtained, a pension adjustment order following a divorce or judicial separation. A brief guide to the pension provisions of the Family Law Acts
	Purchase of notional service (PNS) and additional voluntary contributions (AVCs) This booklet is designed to provide a summary of the options available to civil and public servants who are considering a 'top up' or enhancement to their pension and/or retirement savings. Purchase of notional service (PNS) and additional voluntary contributions (AVCs)
	A guide to hybrid pension schemes This booklet is intended to help employers, employees, union representatives and others involved with pensions to understand the different types of pension scheme designs. This is with a view to helping them to reach agreement about the most suitable type of pension scheme in a particular situation. A guide to hybrid pension schemes
	National pensions policy initiative – Report of The Pensions Board (May 1998) This report, from the Board to the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, is the culmination of the National Pensions Policy Initiative. It contains the Board’s assessment of the current situation regarding pension provision in Ireland. It sets out a strategy for future development, and it contains a number of major proposals and recommendations for change to give effect to the strategy. Please note that this is a large document of 254 pages. NPPI report
	Securing retirement income – National pensions policy initiative – A brief guide to report of The Pensions Board (Sept 2000) This booklet provides a brief guide to 'Securing Retirement Income - the National Pensions Policy Initiative Report of the Pensions Board'. Securing retirement income