More than 900,000 receiving income supports in March, CSO figures show Total of about 40 per cent of workforce includes those on live register, PUP or EWSS
Mon, May 10, 2021, 11:51
There were just over 900,000 people – about 40 per cent of the Irish workforce – on some form of income support in March.
Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures show 905,575 people were on the live register or were benefitting from the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) or the employment wage subsidy scheme (EWSS) in March
This was down from 941,070 in February.
While the PUP and the live register are weekly schemes, the availability of the EWSS data depends on an employee’s pay frequency which could be weekly, fortnightly, every four weeks or monthly.
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