The overall figure is down 70% on February.
The number of people on the Pandemic Unemployment Payment has decreased by 6,000in the past week.
Almost one third of the people who came off the payment and returned to work last week are involved in the hospitality sector.
There are currently just over 143,000 people in receipt of the payment, a 70 percent decrease on the peak of 481,000 seen in February of this year.

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