# Pandemic Unemployment Payment
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Social Welfare
Highest level of Pandemic Unemployment Payment to be restored to €350 a week
19 Oct 2020
37.9k
39
PUP
Self-employed people to be allowed claim Covid-19 welfare payment while earning through work
13 Oct 2020
47.0k
17
Budget 2021
Call for PUP recipients under 25 to have higher rate of payment restored
9 Oct 2020
21.3k
22
SUPPORTS
It would be unfair to restore PUP for one cohort of workers and not others, says minister
22 Sep 2020
28.0k
34
Job Losses
New Pandemic Unemployment Payment bands kick in today, here's what you need to know
17 Sep 2020
46.6k
22
Covid-19 payment
Almost 28,000 people have had their PUP stopped after failing to confirm they still needed it
17 Aug 2020
41.7k
20
Coronavirus
Minister reminds affected workers in Kildare, Laois and Offaly to avail of PUP and illness benefit
10 Aug 2020
21.0k
22
direct provision
Direct Provision residents will now be eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Payment
6 Aug 2020
39.2k
87
PUP
Less than one in 10 who appealed the cut in their Pandemic Unemployment Payment have had it restored
2 Aug 2020
47.6k
41
Jobseekers
Jobs market at 2016 levels as government tells PUP recipients to 'genuinely seek work'
1 Aug 2020
22.7k
50
PUP
Department of Social Protection defends 'legal basis' for checks by social welfare inspectors at airports
30 Jul 2020
22.1k
45
pandemic payment
Department says 85 people who had their PUP stopped may be entitled to it
Updated
29 Jul 2020
75.2k
217
covid-19 benefit
Humphreys promises 'common sense approach' on whether people on PUP are 'genuinely seeking work'
28 Jul 2020
23.5k
48
Welfare Payments
'No clear legal basis' to remove PUP for those holidaying abroad, says legal advice group
28 Jul 2020
23.7k
70
alternative work
On the pandemic unemployment payment? The Taoiseach says you should be seeking work
27 Jul 2020
35.9k
112
Social Welfare
Decision to cut welfare payments after recipients' holidays abroad criticised as 'unfair and discriminatory'
Updated
27 Jul 2020
91.9k
241
SUPPORTS
Pandemic Unemployment Payment extended - but some rates will be tapered from 17 September
23 Jul 2020
51.5k
36
Covid-19 PUP
Reducing pandemic payment to €300 per week in the autumn under consideration
Updated
20 Jul 2020
46.0k
33
Covid-19
'I had to protect my staff' — Government green list could cause workplace disputes, expert says
18 Jul 2020
81.1k
155
pricey trip
Going overseas against travel advice will cost claimants Jobseekers or PUP payments
4 Jul 2020
139k
201
Dublin
Man arrested as part of investigation into Pandemic Unemployment Payment fraud
2 Jul 2020
53.2k
13
Covid-19
Over one million people on Live Register or getting unemployment payment
2 Jul 2020
13.9k
19
Social Welfare
More than four years’ worth of welfare claims processed in a few weeks, Oireachtas committee hears
16 Jun 2020
22.0k
40
Gabriel Makhlouf
Covid-19 poses 'unprecedented' test of Irish economy, warns Central Bank Governor
16 Jun 2020
10.9k
9
Mullingar
Westmeath teenager pleads guilty to using garda PPS number to obtain Covid-19 payments
12 Jun 2020
33.2k
Unemployment
Ibec warns of the 'sharpest compression of economic activity in living memory'
4 Jun 2020
23.7k
45
Coronavirus
Dramatic slide in government finances: €6 billion deficit in May compared to €63m last year
3 Jun 2020
22.0k
65
Social Welfare
Number receiving Covid-19 unemployment payment drops again with 64,000 now back to work
2 Jun 2020
43.8k
35
covid19 unemployment
Nobody on the pandemic payment is 'living it up', says Finance Minister
Updated
28 May 2020
72.1k
238