Brexit and contributions to other EU pensions

bewildered123

I suspect the answer to this is no-one knows atm, but in case anyone has a clue:

I am a dual UK/Irish citizen living and working in the UK. I have made pension contributions in both Belgium and Germany while working abroad in the past. The EU deal was that on retirement you could claim a proportion of a state pension from other EU states you'd worked in, depending on how many years you'd paid in for. Will my continuing EU citizenship as an Irish citizen protect those rights or will living in the UK negate them?

And if it looks bad is there anything I should try to do to protect myself at the moment?

AnotherJoe

No one can know what's going to happen next week let alone in several years time. You'd hope that inertia and many more bigger deals to conclude would leave things like this as is but there's no way to know.

JezR

As I wrote on another thread, it is usual in the circumstances that if a reciprocal arrangement ceases that entitlements accrued to that date are honoured. Your issue in that circumstance would be if the years paid into all of the schemes by that date are sufficient in years to get over any minimum required, such as the 10 years for the UK.

There is no particular reason though to think these agreements have to cease or not be replaced. The UK did have a number of bilateral arrangements prior to joining the EEC - for example there was one with Ireland from 1966.