State inspectors cut PUP payments to more than 37,000 working claimants

Pandemic payments were stopped after data-matching showed thousands were still claiming support while back at work

Checks revealed that around 37,400 workers were being employed while still claiming the PUP. Around 6,400 of them were detected in 2020 during the first year of the PUP, while another 31,000 were detected last year