Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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346. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if workers (details supplied) can still claim the pandemic unemployment payment for the loss of part-time work. [25268/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) remains available to employees and self-employed who have lost their employment as a direct consequence of the pandemic and who satisfy the qualifying conditions of the statutory scheme.

In the case of student nurses taking up clinical placement, the Department has clarified that the PUP is payable to those student nurses who were already in part time employment and when taking up their placement were informed by their employer that they could no longer continue with their employment due to COVID-19 related risks.

Where entitlement to the PUP is established the payment will be effective from the date the applicant lost their employment.

I trust that this clarifies the position.