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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 paid at two rates from 29th June, based on previous earnings.
For those who earned less than €200 a week , their payment will change to €203 .
For those who earned €200 or more a week , their payment won’t change and they will continue to receive €350 .
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
For more information: Changes to the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment Rates
If you are an employer who can show that you have lost at least 25 percent of your trade - you will be able to claim a percentage of your employees net wage back with Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme . The government encourages you to top-up your employees' wages to maintain them at their current level of earnings.
This scheme does not apply to people who are self-employed.
Employers have to sign up to the scheme through Revenue.
All employers who have applied to the older COVID-19 Employer Refund Scheme will be automatically transferred onto the new, higher payment.
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 .
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
