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PUP

Jobseeker’s payment into bank accounts ends after probe found higher risk of fraud in pandemic

Investigation found fraud amounting to a €117 million loss to the state when the allowance was paid into recipients’ bank accounts during the pandemic
  • Michael Brennan
  • March 20, 2022

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
  • Michael Brennan
  • March 6, 2022

Data on insurers’ payout deductions won’t be published this year

Government has come under renewed pressure to recoup millions of euro deducted by insurance firms from Covid-19 compensation
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 16, 2022

Fleming to examine if British insurers’ pledge can be replicated in Ireland

Junior minister has contacted UK counterpart to learn if commitment given by insurers not to strip value of pandemic-related state supports from awards can be applied here
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 12, 2022

Insurers asked to repay state money they deducted from awards to pandemic-hit firms

Junior minister ‘hopes’ insurers give the money back but admitted the government has no means of enforcing that request
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 10, 2022

Taxpayers lose as insurers keep millions in state funds cut from Covid payouts

Government abandons promise to pursue firms for the value of any deductions made
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 9, 2022

Almost one in ten Pup recipients were ineligible, Public Accounts Committee to hear

Department of Social Protection said it plans to scrutinise all Pup recipients for possible overpayment on the scheme
  • Eva Short
  • December 8, 2021

Government allocates just €75m to Pup in 2022

Leo Varadkar has said phasing out of payment may have to be reviewed if more severe restrictions are reintroduced
  • Donal MacNamee
  • November 26, 2021

Ministers to discuss renewing Covid supports for hospitality sector

Cabinet sub-committee meets tomorrow to tackle thorny issue of how to shore up industry hit hardest by latest restrictions
  • Michael Brennan
  • November 21, 2021

Susan O’Keeffe: Support for SME sector and rapid booster rollout essential for next phase of pandemic

We can’t go back in time and start the boosters two weeks earlier, but pushing up the rate of vaccinations in the coming weeks must be possible and must be the absolute priority
  • Susan O'Keeffe
  • November 19, 2021

PUP cost drops further as more staff return to work

The payment will be cut by €50 this week, and is due to be phased out in February of next year
  • Michael Brennan
  • November 14, 2021

Study finds 20,000 hospitality workers have moved to new jobs outside the sector

A government study looked at what happened to 515,000 workers after they signed off the pandemic unemployment payment
  • Michael Brennan
  • October 17, 2021

Government abandoned cutting PUP to ‘dual support’ students

The pandemic unemployment payment as well as the Student Universal Support Ireland grant was being paid to 7,000 students studying remotely, but the government backed off cutting their PUP for fear of a backlash
  • Michael Brennan
  • September 5, 2021

Ian Guider: We can’t afford to delay the inevitable on state supports

The extensive pandemic payments were necessary to keep firms afloat, but now we need to look at the new normal – and which businesses might not survive it
  • Ian Guider
  • August 15, 2021

Ireland’s total household wealth has risen by €89bn in a year

Central Bank says an increase in deposits and housing assets led to household net worth reaching €883 billion in first quarter but figures do not reflect distribution of wealth
  • Eva Short
  • August 11, 2021

Number of Pup recipients falls to lowest since March 2020

The number of people in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment was approximately 192,000 this week, a decrease of almost 10,000 on the previous week
  • Eva Short
  • July 28, 2021

PUP should be cut faster to get workers back, Isme says

Group says lack of state guidance on companies’ right to staff vaccination status puts employers in an impossible position
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 15, 2021

Minimum-wage workers in Ireland among worst hit in Europe by Covid-19, ESRI finds

Some 43 per cent of the lowest paid workers here are employed in the accommodation, food, wholesale or retail sectors which have been badly affected by the pandemic
  • Eva Short
  • April 8, 2021

More state debt needed to fund PUP past June, says Varadkar

Tánaiste tells Fine Gael TDs that the government needs to borrow more money to pay for further extensions to the pandemic supports
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 4, 2021

Unemployment rate stays above 24% as lockdown continues

Covid-19 youth unemployment rate is at 59 per cent, CSO figures show, as government announces €17 million fund to help struggling hospitality businesses provide outdoor dining
  • Sarah Taaffe-Maguire
  • March 31, 2021

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