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# Pandemic Unemployment Payment

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Nearly 300,000 people now in receipt of the PUP as €350 rate returns
Highest level of Pandemic Unemployment Payment to be restored to €350 a week
Number receiving Covid-19 unemployment payment rises by over 15,000
Self-employed people to be allowed claim Covid-19 welfare payment while earning through work
Number receiving Covid-19 unemployment payment jumps by over 23,000
Call for PUP recipients under 25 to have higher rate of payment restored
Cuts to Covid-19 unemployment payments are unfair, Mary Lou McDonald says
It would be unfair to restore PUP for one cohort of workers and not others, says minister
New Pandemic Unemployment Payment bands kick in today, here's what you need to know
PUP claims drop further as 1,500 education employees return to work
Kildare, Laois and Offaly see small increase in people availing of PUP
Almost 28,000 people have had their PUP stopped after failing to confirm they still needed it
Minister reminds affected workers in Kildare, Laois and Offaly to avail of PUP and illness benefit
Direct Provision residents will now be eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Payment
Less than one in 10 who appealed the cut in their Pandemic Unemployment Payment have had it restored
Jobs market at 2016 levels as government tells PUP recipients to 'genuinely seek work'
Department of Social Protection defends 'legal basis' for checks by social welfare inspectors at airports
Department says 85 people who had their PUP stopped may be entitled to it
Humphreys promises 'common sense approach' on whether people on PUP are 'genuinely seeking work'
'No clear legal basis' to remove PUP for those holidaying abroad, says legal advice group
On the pandemic unemployment payment? The Taoiseach says you should be seeking work
Decision to cut welfare payments after recipients' holidays abroad criticised as 'unfair and discriminatory'
Pandemic Unemployment Payment extended - but some rates will be tapered from 17 September
Reducing pandemic payment to €300 per week in the autumn under consideration
'I had to protect my staff' — Government green list could cause workplace disputes, expert says
Going overseas against travel advice will cost claimants Jobseekers or PUP payments
Paschal Donohoe: Wage subsidy scheme 'won't come to abrupt end'
Man arrested as part of investigation into Pandemic Unemployment Payment fraud
Over one million people on Live Register or getting unemployment payment
More than four years’ worth of welfare claims processed in a few weeks, Oireachtas committee hears
Covid-19 poses 'unprecedented' test of Irish economy, warns Central Bank Governor
Westmeath teenager pleads guilty to using garda PPS number to obtain Covid-19 payments
Q&A: How the extended pandemic payment schemes will work
Ibec warns of the 'sharpest compression of economic activity in living memory'
Paschal Donohoe: 'Wage subsidy scheme will not disappear overnight'
Dramatic slide in government finances: €6 billion deficit in May compared to €63m last year
Number receiving Covid-19 unemployment payment drops again with 64,000 now back to work
Nobody on the pandemic payment is 'living it up', says Finance Minister
ESRI warns against austerity measures in short-term as economy heals from the pandemic
People warned not to fall for unemployment payment text scam