The Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment is an emergency payment introduced by the Government for a 12 week period for employees and self-employed people who have lost all their employment due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. The original rate of payment was €203 per week which was increased to €350 per week.
It is expected that 585,000 will receive the payment during week commencing 18th May 2020 costing €204.6 million.
The number of persons availing of the scheme and the weekly expenditure since its introduction are outlined in the following table:
Payment on
|
Recipients
|
Expenditure
€m
|
24th March 2020
|
58,739
|
11.9
|
31st March 2020
|
283,038
|
99.1
|
7th April 2020
|
497,626
|
174.2
|
14th April 2020
|
528,343
|
184.9
|
21st April 2020
|
583,317
|
204.2
|
28th April 2020
|
590,976
|
206.8
|
5th May 2020
|
602,106
|
210.7
|
11 May 2020
|
589,638
|
206.5
|