{"id":266698,"date":"2026-01-27T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266698\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:34:10","slug":"uniformed-frontline-workers-highlight-pension-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266698\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniformed frontline workers highlight &#8216;pension injustice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uniformed state service workers from Dublin Fire Brigade, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, the Prison Service and the Defence Forces are launching a campaign today to highlight what they are describing as a &#8220;critical pension injustice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Save Our Future&#8221; campaign meeting will see members and representatives from all four services tell of the financial hardship faced by personnel who retire after years of service.<\/p>\n<p>According to organisers, workers who joined after 2012 receive only a fraction of their pension until state pension age, despite having a statutory earlier retirement age in these frontline roles.<\/p>\n<p>SIPTU Organiser Geoff McAvoy said they are seeking the full restoration of the supplementary pension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before the last General Election, promises to examine this issue were made, but these remain unfulfilled,&#8221; Mr McAvoy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an unacceptable slap in the face to thousands of dedicated frontline public service workers,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uniformed state service workers from Dublin Fire Brigade, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, the Prison Service and the Defence Forces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,176,61,60,174,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-266698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}