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EIIS woes

Let’s say you’ve just retired from your common-or-garden job in the civil service with your lump sum.

On average, a retiring civil servant has about €65,000 of a lump sum to play around with, but it’s often more (more than 500 senior civil servants have received lump sums in excess of €100,000 in the last three years, after all). Your kids have grown up and the mortgage is paid off, so ...