Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) and the rate of pandemic unemployment payment paid to them will be reviewed. [21888/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned has had their Pandemic Unemployment Payment reviewed. Her payment has been re-rated to the higher weekly amount and arrears will issue this week.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment by welfare district; and the budget cost of the payment for each month from March 2020 to date. [21895/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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To manage the delivery of services across the county, the country is split into eight divisional areas. The divisions are based on the location and catchment areas of the Department's various offices, rather than county boundaries. Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) recipients are not assigned to an Intreo or branch office, and so cannot readily be broken into these divisional areas.

Accordingly, where a county may be in two of the Department's divisions, the PUP recipient number for that county has been halved and assigned to each of the divisions concerned. Where the county is unknown, these are not included. The Deputy should also note that county breakdowns are published each week by officials in my Department at

The estimated expenditure for each month of the scheme to the end of August is set out below, and is based on the month of the payment issued date. March contains one payment date; June contains 5 payment dates; the remainder contain 4 payment dates.