Many more people on the wage-subsidy scheme than pandemic payments     

Revenue figures last week showed there were 359,800 people in July whose wages and salaries were being subsidised under the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme

Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys: The number of people requiring the PUP fell by 3,875 to 149,435, with accommodation and food services, wholesale and retail, and construction still accounting for the largest groups, Department of Social Protection figures show. File picture

Many more people are now availing of the wage subsidy scheme than the Pandemic Unemployment Payment, new figures show. 

It comes as the number of people requiring the PUP fell by 3,875 to 149,435, with accommodation and food services, wholesale and retail, and construction still accounting for the largest groups, Department of Social Protection figures show.