Claimants who mostly earned self-employed income - but also generated some PAYE income - have reported reductions in their PUP payments in recent weeks as the Department for Social Protection is only considering their PAYE income for 2019 and 2020.
The issue arises as Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys seeks to draw a line under the controversy around PUP claimants who had travelled abroad. "It would appear there's another problem with the changing in the Pandemic Unemployment Payment entitlement. The Government now appear to be discriminating against thousands of self employed workers - paying them the lower rate of the PUP - even though they have earned above average earnings in a qualifying year," Mr Ó Ríordáin said on RTÉ's Drivetime.
"In my reply, I outlined how my PAYE work in 2019 is the same as other years - its part time and it doesn't reflect my true earnings. The vast majority of my earnings come from my self-employed work - which hasn't been processed in my tax returns in 2019. They would have been well aware of this - as they saw in 2018."
"I have a five-week-old baby, a two-year-old, a wife, bills, mortgage - and this is unnecessary stress and anxiety."Independents4Change TD Joan Collins and Fianna Fáil's Marc MacSharry are among the TDs to raise the issue through parliamentary questions in recent days.
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