Sum of €142.86m. to be paid to PUP recipients tomorrow

This week the Department of Social Protection has issued weekly payments valued at €142.86 million to 475,364 people in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP).

The number of people receiving a PUP payment this week represents an increase of 15,443 (over 3%) on the 459,921 people paid last week.

These figures are in addition to the 189,860 people who were on the Live Register at the end of December.

All Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payments issued will be in recipients’ bank accounts or at their post office tomorrow (Tuesday).

Dublin is the county with the highest number of people who are receiving PUP this week at 147,191.

It is followed by Cork with 48,731, and then Galway and Kildare with 25,130 and 21,063 respectively.

The sector with the highest number of people receiving PUP this week is accommodation and food service activities (111,569).

This is followed by wholesale and retail trade (75,861) and construction (61,159).

Construction is the sector that has seen the largest increase in the number of people receiving PUP this week, with an additional 4,942 people now receiving the payment when compared to last week.

The wholesale and retail sector has seen the number of PUP recipients increase from 73,382 last week to 75,861 this week.

This is followed by the manufacturing sector, which has increased by 1,559 to 27,173 recipients in the last week.

People returning to work

In the past seven days, some 10,000 people closed their PUP claim, with 6,749 of these stating that they were doing so because they are returning to work.