{"id":284011,"date":"2026-02-14T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/284011\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:24:09","slug":"over-30000-recipients-of-state-pension-contributory-across-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/284011\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 30,000 recipients of State Pension Contributory across region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are over 30,000 recipients of the State Pension Contributory in the Shannonside Northern Sound region.<br \/>Figures were revealed earlier this week following a parliamentary question from Deputy Malcom Byrne to Minister for Social Protection, Dara Calleary.<br \/>The State Pension Contributory is a weekly, non-means-tested payment for people aged 66 or over with sufficient PRSI contributions, payable regardless of other income.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the Shannonside Northern Sound region, Cavan has the highest number of recipients at nearly 7,900.<br \/>There are just over 7,700 in Roscommon, 6,700 receive the payment in Monaghan while there are over 4,400 and 4,000 in Longford and Leitrim respectively.<br \/>Nationally, 560,571 receive the payment on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are over 30,000 recipients of the State Pension Contributory in the Shannonside Northern Sound region.Figures were revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245,158426],"class_list":["post-284011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-state-pension-contributory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}