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LATEST: Donegal pandemic unemployment payment recipients up over 400 in last two weeks

The number of Donegal people who are now in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) has reached almost 2,000 again, it was announced this evening. The New Year spike results from hospitality restrictions that were put in place or renewed ...

05 Jan 2022 at 18:05

Local News

Donegal PUP recipients now 86% lower than 2020 high

The number of Donegal people who are still in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) is now just 14% of what it was at its height of the pandemic in May of 2020, a reduction of 86%. And the figure is also just 80% lower then its 2021 ...

16 Sept 2021 at 11:23

Local News

Donegal PUP recipients at its lowest since scheme began, as numbers hover just above 5,000

The number of people in Donegal who are in receipt of the emergency PUP (pandemic unemployment payment) is at its lowest since the scheme started last year. The number of people who received payments on August 3, stood at 5,063, compared to the ...

05 Aug 2021 at 09:01

Local News

Over a thousand off Donegal PUP since the start of July

Over a thousand people in Donegal have signed off on their pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) since the beginning of July, new statistics out today reveal. That brings the numbers on the scheme in Donegal to below 6,000 for the first, at 5,...

28 Jul 2021 at 10:01

Local News

Donegal PUP recipients dip below 7,000

The number of people in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment payment (PUP) in Donegal has dipped to below 7,000 for the first time since 2020. And almost 4,000 have signed off on the payment since the beginning of June. They are now 6,895 ...

14 Jul 2021 at 13:30

Local News

Donegal PUP recipients down over 11,000 on February high

In a sign of the continuing change in the economic situation in Donegal, the number of people in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) now stands at 4,540. This is 11,881 down on the February 2021 high, when 16,421 people in ...

18 Aug 2021 at 11:02

Crime & Court

Judge warns man who falsely claimed PUP to 'rethink' repayment plan

A man who falsely claimed over €8,000 in Pandemic Unemployment Payments (PUP) has been warned to rethink his repayment plan. Pawel Piechocki received the payments from October 30, 2020 and was apprehended when a Social Welfare inspector ...

10 Mar 2023 at 09:27

Donegallive

Donegal judge hits out at ‘galling’ PUP fraud

A Donegal Judge has once again slammed people who illegally claimed pandemic unemployment payments (PUP) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Judge Éiteáin Cunningham was speaking as several people came before Letterkenny District Court ...

03 Oct 2023 at 18:53

Covid-19

Donegal and Dublin Level 3 restrictions reinforce the need to reverse PUP cuts

Sinn Féin's spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade, Employment and Workers’ Rights Louise O’Reilly TD has said that the introduction of Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions in Donegal and Dublin reinforce the need to restore the Pandemic ...

26 Sept 2020 at 14:45

Local News

Donegal pandemic unemployment payments increased by over 3,200 since levels 3&4 introduced here

While Donegal faces even more challenges as a result of new Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions which came into force at midnight, numbers receiving the weekly Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) have already increased here by ...

22 Oct 2020 at 14:00

Local News

Christmas bonus for Pandemic Unemployment Payment recipients

There has been a welcome for the announcement of a 100% Christmas Bonus to recipients of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment. Donegal Cathaoirleach Rena Donaghey said: “A Christmas Bonus of 100% will be paid on an ...

22 Nov 2020 at 12:00

Local News

Warning of tax issues related to PUP payments - South Donegal TD Marian Harkin

A change in July to the Social Welfare COVID-19 Amendment Bill could leave recipients of PUP payments liable to substantial tax bills at a time of significant challenge to their incomes. This warning was issued ...

12 Nov 2020 at 18:30

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