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Numbers set to get PUP down 15,000 this week Updated / Monday, 12 Apr 2021 18:55 Business Editor The number of people due to receive the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) this week is down 15,776 on last week. 421,373 people will get a total of €125.52m in PUP payments. A further 183,096 were also on the Live Register at the end of March in receipt of other forms of unemployment assistance. The largest number of PUP recipients remains in Dublin, where 134,417 people are claiming the payment. Accommodation and food is the sector with the largest number of recipients, followed by wholesale...

Income tax and VAT help counter State's Covid-linked fiscal deficit Tax receipts up 1% as spending climbs 14% in first quarter despite lockdown about 3 hours ago Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe: innovation by companies and the consumer response bode well for the recovery of the Irish economy. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.   Consumers and businesses have “adapted” to transacting online during the current Level 5 lockdown, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe sai...

Clare FM 6th April 2021 The number of people on Clare’s Live Register has dropped by more than ten per cent since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland. New CSO data shows that more than 4,800 people in this county were in dole queues as of last month. CONTINUE READING BELOW Current live register numbers don’t take into account those availing of specialised COVID-19 supports, including the Pandemic Unemployment Payment. There were 4,861 people throughout Clare on the live register in March – more than half of those were signing on in Ennis, which has 328 people...

Economics Correspondent There was a reduction of 5.7% last month in the combined numbers of people on the Live Register and receiving the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP).  According to the latest figures from the CSO, there were 617,441 people on both the Live Register and PUP last month.  The seasonally adjusted figure for the Live Register in March was 186,300, down 2,700 compared to February. In the last week in March, there were 443,247 people in receipt of the PUP. The numbers on the PUP are down 25,644 compared to February but up 49,274 compared to March of last year. This is the ...

The number of redundancies flagged to the Government is now four times higher than before the Covid-19 crisis began. New figures show there were 970 potential redundancies notified to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment last month. This compared with 212 in February last year. A total of 984 redundancies were notified in January, up from 233 in January last year. In the first 10 days of this month, employers have notified the department of a further 268 possible redundancies. “The number of redundancies is running at four to five times higher than this time in 2020, and this ...