The 439,000 people currently receiving the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) have been given until Monday 13 July to confirm that they are still fully unemployed and eligible to receive the payment.
When the PUP was launched three months ago, ahead of a wave of lay-offs triggered by the virus, recipients qualified for the payment if they were fully unemployed, and had been employed in the week immediately before Friday 13 March.
The Department of Social Protection said there has been no change to the criteria for receipt of the PUP, and that once claimants are fully unemployed, they will continue to receive it until the scheme is due to expire on 10 August.