{"id":295935,"date":"2026-02-22T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295935\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:55:08","slug":"almost-20000-across-region-enrolled-in-retirement-savings-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295935\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 20,000 across region enrolled in retirement savings system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are almost 20,000 in the Shannonside region enrolled in the Government&#8217;s retirement savings system.<br \/>Figures were revealed earlier this week following a parliamentary question from Dublin South Central TD Catherine Ardagh to Minister for Social Protection, Dara Calleary.<br \/>The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System.<br \/>The aim of introducing Auto Enrolment is to address the pension coverage gap that exists in Ireland and to provide workers with access to a quality assured retirement savings scheme.<\/p>\n<p>As of January 27th there were a total of 19,871 signed up locally.<br \/>Roscommon had the highest in the region at 8720, that was followed by Longford with 7012 and 4139 in Leitrim.<br \/>Overall, the total participant count nationally was 761,789.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are almost 20,000 in the Shannonside region enrolled in the Government&#8217;s retirement savings system.Figures were revealed earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245,163207],"class_list":["post-295935","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-retirement-savings-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295935","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=295935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}