Michael McDowell: Bedsit ban offers a warning on future income supports

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The demise of the urban bedsit effectively extinguished the lowest rung of the private rented accommodation ladder for many vulnerable people. Photograph: Getty Images

The pandemic unemployment payment was a wholly necessary and socially just intervention by the State to help the most economically vulnerable survive the calamitous effects of the lockdowns. Some may argue that it was unfair at the edges, insofar as deserving cases between jobs and other similar exclusions were harsh. Others claimed that PUPs were overly generous and sapped the will to participate. Improper claims have been identified in a minority of cases.

 

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