Workers will lose Pandemic Unemployment Payment if they travel abroad

Workers will lose their €350 Pandemic Unemployment Payment if they travel abroad, it was revealed on Sunday.

Until recently those on Jobseekers Allowance were allowed to leave the country for up to two weeks each year. Speaking on RTE’s The Week in Politics Tanaiste Leo Varadkar confirmed that people receiving the PUP will lose their payment if they go abroad. “So the Department of Social Protection gets information from the airports and if somebody is not genuinely seeking work or is not genuinely living in the country any more their welfare payments can be stopped."

He said the government was also looking at other measures such as the possibility of requiring people to have evidence of a negative test prior to travelling from some countries.

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