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The numbers receiving the Pandemic Unemployment Payment have fallen sharply as more businesses reopened

Numbers receiving income support down 8.7% in July

Business / 16 hrs

The PUP is to be extended until next year

Pandemic payment to be extended until April 2021

Coronavirus / 23 Jul

Paschal Donohoe said that the employer is expected to make "best efforts" to maintain the employee's average net pre-pandemic income from January and February for the duration of the TWSS

Employers won't be forced to top up subsidy payments

Business / 21 Jul

Leo Varadkar told the Dáil the Government was also considering opening the scheme to seasonal workers

Govt considers extending Wage Subsidy Scheme

Coronavirus / 16 Jul

Many businesses that had been closed have reopened

Draft law to allow those on PUP safeguard entitlements

Coronavirus / 13 Jul

Almost 700,000 workers have received at least one payment through the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme

Call to spread TWSS tax burden over four years

Business / 13 Jul

63,000 PUP recipients have closed their claims in the last week - the largest such figure since the crisis began

Numbers on PUP continue downward trend

Coronavirus / 06 Jul

Michael McGrath said the scheme cannot come to an abrupt end

Wage scheme set to be extended, new incentives planned

Politics / 05 Jul

Money is an economic lubricant - but the question is how quickly consumer spending will get back into gear

Counting the economic cost of Covid-19

Business / 04 Jul

AIB had halted accepting mortgage applications from customers receiving Covid-19 supports from the State

AIB reverses mortgage rule for Covid payment recipients

Business / 01 Jul

Revenue is warning employers that it may claw back the subsidy from those who did not have a reasonable basis for believing they qualified for the scheme

ISME warns of redundancies if wage scheme halted

Business / 30 Jun

57% of respondents on Covid-19 benefit payments are not aware that a future tax liability is building

Workers on Covid-19 benefit payments face tax bills

Business / 27 Jun

Chartered Accountants Ireland said the timing of the Revenue move was unhelpful as businesses were getting back on their feet after the pandemic shutdown

Timing of Revenue wage subsidy checks 'unhelpful'

Business / 24 Jun

465,900 people are now receiving the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment - a drop of 32,800 over the last week

Numbers on Pandemic Unemployment Payment fall again

Business / 22 Jun

A total of 498,700 people received PUP payments last week

Number of people on Pandemic Payment drops again

Coronavirus / 16 Jun

6,500 builders have returned to work since Covid-19 restrictions were lifted

27k fewer people on PUP, with more on subsidy scheme

Business / 08 Jun

Just under 800,000 people are totally dependent on the State for their income

Number of people on Pandemic Unemployment Payment dips

Business / 18 May

Paschal Donohoe said the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme and the Pandemic Unemployment Payment will continue to preserve people's income and jobs

Donohoe: No decision yet on extending Covid-19 payments

Coronavirus / 15 May

The scheme has cost €936m so far, according to the Revenue Commissioners

Tax take plummets as wage subsidy bill reaches €936m

Coronavirus / 14 May

Minister Regina Doherty has anticipated a fall-off in unemployment claims as the economy gradually reopens

Slight fall in number of Pandemic Unemployment Payments

Coronavirus / 11 May

Paschal Donohoe said the wage subsidy scheme is keeping over 400,000 people in a job which is critical for the economy

TWSS changes for lower income earners on the way

Business / 06 May

Today alone, the Revenue Commissioners have generated payments worth over €60 million

More than 427,000 workers now on wage subsidy scheme

Business / 30 Apr

To access the TWSS, the employees have to have been included on the employer's payroll on February 29

Revenue lets firms who missed deadline access TWSS

Business / 24 Apr

The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection said the income support figures are 'unparalleled in our nation's history'

Over one million now dependent on State income support

Coronavirus / 20 Apr

The CIF wants the €76,000 cap on the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme to be scrapped

CIF wants Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme cap lifted

Business / 08 Apr

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