A queue outside the GPO, O’Connell Street for social welfare payments
This morning
The Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) is expected to close to new entrants from next month and to reduce in instalments of €50 from September.
Via RTE:
The wage subsidy scheme and commercial rates waiver are both expected to continue until at least September.
It is understood the cost of extending these schemes will be around €2bn.
Supports for small and medium sized companies get into the export market will be announced as well as 50,000 training places for digital and green jobs.
Details will also be given on projects to be funded through the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Fund, one of which will be a low cost loan scheme for retrofitting homes.
Govt to lay out roadmap to economic recovery with plan announcement (RTÉ)
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