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COVID-19 Information for Employers
From Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment will be in place until April 2021.
COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment Rates changed on 29 June 2020 and 17 September 2020. There will be further changes on 1 February 2021 and April 2021.
You do not need to contact the Department about your earnings. The Department has access to this information from the Revenue Commissioners.
If you feel you should have received the higher rate of payment, you can request a review of earnings by forwarding all supporting documents and these will be matched with Revenue records.
To request this reivew this you can :
email: PUPRerate@welfare.ie
or write to: PUP Rerate Requests, DEASP, Intreo Centre, Cork Road, Waterford
The Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme replaced the Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme from the 1 September 2020.
Both schemes were in payment from 31 July 2020 until the Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme ended on 31 August 2020. This allowed employers more flexibility with new hires and seasonal workers who did not qualify for the Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme.
It is expected to continue until 31 March 2021.
Employers have to sign up to the scheme through Revenue .
If you need to place your employees on a shorter working week or have had to cut their hours due to the COVID-19 pandemic, your employees can apply for Short Time Work Support .
The Temporary Covid-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme was replaced by the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme from 1 September 2020.
A number of income supports are available from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection for your employees during a COVID-19 (Coronavirus) related absence or temporary lay-off from work:
- How to close a claim for the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
- COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Information for Employers and Employees
- workers who are not diagnosed with COVID-19 but who self-isolate
- workers whose employers do not supplement/top-up the State Illness Benefit payment (COVID-19)
- workers who are requested to stay at home by their employer (COVID-19)
- workers who need to take time off work to care for a person affected by COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- How to repay COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payments
- For members of the public, confidential reporting facilities are available here
- For employers to report cases of suspected mis-claiming, please Email C19EmployerReports@welfare.ie
