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  Level 3 restrictions on Dublin prompts surge in applications for Pandemic Unemployment Payment

  2 hours ago 12,690 15

  #PUP
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  Cuts to Covid-19 unemployment payments are unfair, Mary Lou McDonald says

  Sun 2:55 PM 29,827 125

  #PUP
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  It would be unfair to restore PUP for one cohort of workers and not others, says minister

  Sep 22nd 2020, 7:33 PM 27,449 34

  #SUPPORTS
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  New Pandemic Unemployment Payment bands kick in today, here's what you need to know

  Sep 17th 2020, 6:00 AM 45,377 22

  #JOB LOSSES
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  Kildare, Laois and Offaly see small increase in people availing of PUP

  Aug 24th 2020, 10:18 PM 18,194 7

  #PUP
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  Almost 28,000 people have had their PUP stopped after failing to confirm they still needed it

  Aug 17th 2020, 6:36 PM 39,235 20

  #COVID-19 PAYMENT
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  Minister reminds affected workers in Kildare, Laois and Offaly to avail of PUP and illness benefit

  Aug 10th 2020, 2:10 PM 20,933 22

  #CORONAVIRUS
• Spotlight

  Dublin and Donegal restrictions

  Strict new Covid-19 measures have been announced for the two counties – here’s what you need to know.

  What’s changed?

  The new Level 3 restrictions explained

  Pandemic payments

  Taoiseach: PUP being reexamined in response to localised lockdowns

  the north west

  The stark numbers behind the Donegal decision

  figures

  Health Minister says Dublin Covid figures ‘beginning to stabilise’
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  Less than one in 10 who appealed the cut in their Pandemic Unemployment Payment have had it restored

  Aug 2nd 2020, 8:00 AM 46,467 41

  #PUP
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  Jobs market at 2016 levels as government tells PUP recipients to 'genuinely seek work'

  Aug 1st 2020, 8:00 AM 22,548 50

  #JOBSEEKERS
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  Department of Social Protection defends 'legal basis' for checks by social welfare inspectors at airports

  Jul 30th 2020, 9:48 PM 21,019 45

  #PUP
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  Data watchdog has 'serious doubts' over whether social welfare inspectors acted lawfully at airports

  Jul 30th 2020, 1:14 PM 16,563 38

  #DATA COLLECTION
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  Department says 85 people who had their PUP stopped may be entitled to it

  Updated Jul 29th 2020, 9:27 PM 74,617 213

  #PANDEMIC PAYMENT
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  Humphreys promises 'common sense approach' on whether people on PUP are 'genuinely seeking work'

  Jul 28th 2020, 10:57 PM 23,356 48

  #COVID-19 BENEFIT
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  Department of Social Protection: 'The PUP is not paid to people who leave the country to live elsewhere, or who go on holidays abroad'

  Jul 28th 2020, 10:31 AM 26,391 97

  #COVID PUP
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  Over one million people on Live Register or getting unemployment payment

  Jul 2nd 2020, 2:52 PM 13,374 19

  #COVID-19
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  Q&A: How the extended pandemic payment schemes will work

  Jun 6th 2020, 12:05 AM 40,728 20

  #EXPLAINER
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  This puppy got braces on his teeth and it's the cutest thing ever

  Mar 1st 2016, 3:17 PM 8,063 3

  #BRACE YOURSELF
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  This Dublin pub is sharing nightmare customer stories

  Sep 28th 2015, 9:00 PM 30,084 8

  #THOMAS HOUSE
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  'Chance the dog has taught me there's nothing anybody can't do'

  Jul 1st 2015, 11:00 AM 12,487 7

  #TAKE A BREAK
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  This pup disappeared in Galway... but turned up on the other side of Ireland

  Mar 27th 2015, 2:24 PM 21,730 10

  #BRUNO
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  Adorable Irish pup and parrot argue over valuable blanket space

  Jun 16th 2014, 4:00 PM 3,544 1

  #POLLY WANNA FIGHT
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  Good samaritan dog refuses to leave friend's side after he was hit by a car

  Dec 30th 2013, 9:02 AM 2,445 4

  #DOG'S BEST FRIEND
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  Two puppies beaten and thrown over 10-foot wall in Portlaoise

  Jun 5th 2013, 6:45 AM 15,379 86

  #ANIMAL CRUELTY
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  In photos: Californian sea lion pup born at Dublin Zoo

  May 29th 2012, 6:35 PM 4,278 8

  #ZOO BABY
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  Former UVF leader Gusty Spence dead at 78

  Sep 25th 2011, 4:28 PM 1,031 15

  #GUSTY SPENCE

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