Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection Regina Doherty last month. Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection Regina Doherty last month. Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie SOCIAL PROTECTION MINISTER Regina Doherty has defended the government’s pandemic unemployment payment amid anecdotal reports that some people are earning more on the €350-a-week scheme than they were in pre-crisis jobs.
“When we sat down to build a system that would be responsive and impactful to the 506,000 people that we knew were going to lose their jobs in a couple of weeks, two things were really important to us,” she said. “Number one, we did it with speed and number two, that it would be impactful in replacing the incomes people have lost. It’s not perfect.”
She rejected concerns over “some tiny amount of students getting a few bob that they wouldn’t have got if they were still work”. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection says it has paid 283,000 people the weekly Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment this week, representing almost 90% of applications the Department received for this emergency payment.
Concerns have also been raised about working people aged over 66, who can’t claim the Covid-19 payment.
Scrap it and give them the basic dole and nothing to the self employed see how happy they are then.
Nothing ever is with you lot.!!
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