Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an electronic notification relating to a returned pandemic unemployment payment will be sent to the Revenue Commissioners in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25792/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides the Revenue Commissioners with details of payments of taxable social welfare payments on an ongoing basis in order to assist the Revenue Commissioners in the management of an individual's income tax liabilities.

It is understood that the Deputy's query relates to payments of the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment which issued to the person concerned in 2022. While these payments were available for collection at the person's nominated Post Office, they failed to collect them and the payments were subsequently returned to the Department as uncashed. In turn, my Department notified the Revenue Commissioners that the payments had expired. A taxable payments report which issued to the Revenue Commissioners on 19 March 2022 confirmed that the total amount of PUP payments to the person concerned in 2022 was Zero.

I trust that this clarifies matters for the Deputy, but if there is anything further, officials of my Department are available to assist.