Pensions and Pensioners Resources

Questions on Pensions and Pensioners were asked the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) survey in 1999.
Questions on Attitudes to Older People were asked in NILT in 2003.
Questions on Grandparenting and Family Life were asked in NILT in 2004.

ARK Resources

• Raising Grandparents (Research Update 39) by Eileen Evason, Katrina Lloyd and Lizanne Dowds is based on data from the 2004 Grandparenting and Family Life section.

• Ageing Well? (Research Update 31) by Eileen Evason.

• Retirement: Feeling the pinch (Research Update 6) by Eileen Evason.
  
• Retirement: Facing the disappointment (Research Update 4) by Eileen Evason.
• The Older People in Northern Ireland project has produced a series of 5 reports focusing on different aspects of older people in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
• Ageism in Ireland (Occasional Paper 3) uses data from the 2003 NILT module on Attitudes to Older People, as well as survey responses in the Republic of Ireland.

Links

• The Department of Communities in Northern Ireland has information on social security and pensions.
  
• Information on Pension Credit can also be found on the website of the Department for Work and Pensions.
  
• Help the Aged and Age Concern have joined to create a new organisation - Age UK, which includes a section for Northern Ireland (AgeNI).. The Age UK website includes a section on pensions.

Maintained by Paula Devine