Department of Social Protection

granted full-service retirement of 40 years for compassionate/discretionary reasons when they retired on ill health grounds (on the advice of a medical advisor). • The number of recipients to whom full service has been awarded, even, if it was beyond their nearest potential service age for retirement of 60 or 65 (whichever is applicable to their status) i.e. despite 40 yrs being beyond their official retirement age they were not paid just to the nearest pensionable age but instead were awarded full pension. • The number of years granted to these retirees in these cases.