Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the numbers of persons who accessed the pandemic unemployment payment during 2020. [1726/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Due to the nature of the public health crisis, the numbers in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) have fluctuated over time. At the end of March, 283,129 people received a PUP; at the end of June, 438,933 people received a PUP; at the end of September 217,142 people received a PUP; and at the end of December, 335,599 people received a PUP.

In total, over the course of the year, some 784,551 people received a PUP on at least one occasion.