1 used to refer to someone's age, job, health, etc. when they are given the right to receive a pension: --
2 pensionable pay, salary, etc. is the amount of money someone earns that is used to calculate the pension they will receive: --
Voluntary contributions to the scheme must not exceed 15% of pensionable earnings.
The regulations provide that refunds may be claimed when pensionable age is reached.
The first phase was a questionnaire survey of 627 older people, based on a random sample of people of pensionable age in the three urban locations.
This would follow the alignment of the pensionable age for women with that of men at 65 years, which it has been agreed will come into force in 2020.
The study is unusual in that it includes people of pensionable age and found that the highest levels of wellbeing were among those who were employed at these ages.
One is that 41 of our respondents were of pensionable age when interviewed but seven of these were not receiving a state pension, six being women.
Secondly, of the 63 respondents approaching pensionable age (under current entitlements) at least eight felt that they might face problems in this respect, or were unsure about their entitlement.
The 35-year pensionable service cap remains for all service credited before 1992.
In different countries the same process is now being extended to groups of workers below the previously agreed pensionable ages.
