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Number of people on Pandemic Unemployment Payment dips
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The number of people receiving the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment has fallen slightly by 5,000 to 584,600 over the last week, new figures show.
Of those, 7,000 are receiving the €350 weekly payment for the first time. A further 214,700 people were receiving Jobseekers' Benefit of €203 a week at the end of April.
When recipients of the PUP and Jobseekers are taken together, just under 800,000 people are totally dependent on the state for their income.
In addition, 464,000 employees are having their wages subsidised under the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme (TWSS) - as over 54,000 have registered with the Revenue Commissioners to participate in the scheme.
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COVID-19
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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