Pandemic Unemployment Payment

By Leon Fitzpatrick Given the scale of the economic collapse and job losses that followed the onset of the pandemic last year the government was forced to introduce the Pandemic Unemployment Payment of €350. From its inception, the PUP has been a

By Oisín Kelly The government extracting income tax from Pandemic Unemployment Payments (PUP) stands in great contrast to its approach to the enormous wealth concentrated in the hands of the multi-millionaires and billionaires. The pandemic has exposed massive inequalities that exist in