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# Covid-19 PUP

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Over 350,000 people are on Pandemic Unemployment Payment, costing €103.8m
Department of Social Protection: 'The PUP is not paid to people who leave the country to live elsewhere, or who go on holidays abroad'
Reducing pandemic payment to €300 per week in the autumn under consideration
Half of under-24s in Ireland are unemployed, CSO figures suggest