Over a million people continued to depend on the state for income support in June, according to the latest Live Register figures from the Central Statistics Office.
The CSO says that the seasonally adjusted Live Register figure in June was 213,700, down 14,200 from May. The CSO stresses that the Live Register figures do not capture emergency income support schemes including the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) or the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme (TWSS) introduced earlier this year to address the Covid-19 emergency.
In the last week of June, according to the CSO, a total of 438,933 people were receiving the PUP, while a further 382,018 people were being supported under the TWSS.