UK closing voluntary contributions loophole granting cheap windfalls to Irish pension savers

Irish lose out as UK shuts pension deal that was probably too good to last

The UK is shutting a lucrative loophole that enabled Irish people who once worked there to cheaply boost their British state pension entitlements by thousands of euro a year.

Anyone who once lived in the UK will have to pay five times more to top up their British state pension record from next year.