The closure of businesses, because of Covid-19 , affected thousands of workers in Ireland. To help people who had lost income, the government introduced the Pandemic Unemployment Payment. It has become known as the PUP PUP was closed to new applicants in July 2021, but was reopened for a limited time to from Tuesday, 7 […]
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The cost of Covid-19 in Ireland – just in terms of unemployment support – is looking like it going to work out at around €1 Billion Euro every 3 weeks. The rate of unemployment in Ireland was running at around 4.5% in the last quarter of 2019. This was the lowest it had been since […]
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Last Thursday (April 9th) a significant number of people were sent an email by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) – otherwise known as Welfare. This email informed them that their claim for the Pandemic Unemployment of €350 a week had been cancelled or rejected..DEASP admitted, on Friday 10th, to sending out […]
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The Government’s Covid 19 emergency support payment for people who have lost their job was announced a couple of weeks ago . This 12 week payment is going to be increased from €203 a week to €350 a week . The value of the payment is equivalent to a gross income of just under €31,000 […]
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Allowing entitlement to Jobseeker’s Benefit for the Self-Employed was announced in Budget 2019.It started on 1st November 2019 and will be payable to self-employed PRSI contributors who lose their businesses and are no longer engaged in self-employment. Duration – 9 months to people with 260 or more PRSI contributions 6 months to those with fewer […]
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