The Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform has acknowledged there are anomalies in the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme (TWSS), whereby lower paid workers can be worse off in State-subsidised employment that on welfare.
Paschal Donohoe said the scheme was brought in at great speed, and had acknowledged that there would be anomalies due to the breadth of the intervention.
He said he was aware of the gap between the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) and somebody in receipt of the income subsidy scheme on a very low level of income, and was looking at the issue. "Obviously there's a real value in maintaining a relationship with your employer, which is what the income subsidy scheme does allow to happen. "But I do accept there are a