Almost €337 Million Spent On Pandemic Unemployment Payments In Kildare.

Thursday, 20 May 2021 06:00

The figure is for the period March 2020, to April of this year.

The Dept. of Social Protection has paid €336.2 million in Pandemic Unemployment Payments in Kildare.

That's according to the Minister, Heather Humphreys, responding to Kildare North Fianna Fáil TD, James Lawless.

The figure is for the period March, 2020, to April of this year.

In total, 39,368 applications for PUP have been approved in Kildare during that period

This, figure, however, includes the total number of approved applications, including of people who may have signed-off PUP, and signed back on, during changes in restriction levels.

Between April13th and May 11th, almost 2,100 people in Kildare ceased their PUP claims.

As at the latter date, 16,486 people in the county were in receipt of the payment.

County	Total Recipients since introduction	Estimated expenditure (€m) since introduction	Recipients W/E 13th April 2021	Recipients 11th May 2021	Estimated expenditure (€m) w/e 11th May
Carlow	10,082	€79.5	4,151	3,680	€1.1
Cavan	14,091	€112	6,070	5,307	€1.6
Clare	21,034	€186.2	10,306	9,218	€2.8
Cork	89,483	€753.5	42,396	37,118	€11.3
Donegal	29,814	€259.6	14,421	12,983	€3.9
Dublin	255,888	€2,413.8	134,433	122,775	€37.7
Galway	46,509	€412	22,779	20,567	€6.3
Kerry	30,676	€283.3	16,499	14,894	€4.6
Kildare	39,368	€336.2	18,659	16,486	€5.1
Kilkenny	16,428	€138.3	7,686	6,889	€2.1
Laois	13,943	€114.9	6,351	5,544	€1.7
Leitrim	5,402	€47.1	2,560	2,372	€0.7
Limerick	31,945	€268.3	14,665	13,223	€4.0
Longford	6,497	€51.4	2,781	2,452	€0.7
Louth	24,606	€209.3	11,589	10,436	€3.2
Mayo	22,889	€197.8	11,382	10,151	€3.1
Meath	37,758	€324.6	18,041	15,769	€4.9
Monaghan	12,892	€98.4	5,388	4,795	€1.5
Offaly	13,402	€105.9	5,800	5,023	€1.6
Roscommon	10,549	€87.7	4,815	4,265	€1.3
Sligo	10,742	€94.4	5,192	4,674	€1.4
Tipperary	25,759	€208.3	11,80	9,803	€3.0
Waterford	19,645	€24.2	9,221	8,206	€2.5
Westmeath	16,065	€165.1	7,224	6,477	€2.0
Wexford	29,229	€131.7	13,218	11,238	€3.5
Wicklow	25,512	€235	12,728	11,035	€3.4
Unknown	4,318	€226.7	1,844	1,348	€0.4
Total	864,526	€7,565.2	421,379	376,665	€115.4

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