COVID-19 Support Schemes preliminary statistics to 15 April 2021 were published. The number of employees in receipt of Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) payments during April to date amounted to 212,000, representing a 7 percent decrease on the mid-March figures. The statistics show that 4 percent of March EWSS employees appeared on the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) in March. While the latest Department of Social Protection press release shows a 15,000 decrease of PUP recipients from the previous week.
Some 142,100 claims for Covid Restriction Support Scheme (CRSS) payments of €464.3 million in respect of 24,500 premises have been made to date and €461 million of this has been processed for payment. The value of the payments are 85 percent to corporation tax registered businesses and 16 percent income tax to registered businesses