10% Drop In No. Of People Receiving PUP In April.

Monday, 10 May 2021 12:47

178,000 people were on the Live Register in April

The number of people on the Live Register or the Pandemic Unemployment Payment dropped by nearly 10 per cent last month.

The CSO says there were nearly 178,000 people on the Live Register in April - down about 3,500 from March.

Total number of persons on the Live Register or receiving the Pandemic Unemployment Payment decreased by 9.9% to 556,273 over the month to April 2021https://t.co/H6VM8t0ejq #CSOIreland #Ireland #Households #Families #LabourMarket #LiveRegister #Jobs #Employment #Unemployment pic.twitter.com/2XyAblE6dj
— Central Statistics Office Ireland (@CSOIreland) May 10, 2021

And during the last week in April, 385,000 people were on the PUP - which is 58,000 less than a month earlier.

This figure is also down 220,000 from a year ago.

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