Staycation tax rebates and Covid-19 payments extension central to July stimulus package

Queues at Intreo offices in Co Wicklow as people apply for Covid-19 unemployment payment. Picture: Garry O'Neill

The temporary wage subsidy scheme and the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) will be extended until April.

The emergency measures brought in at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic are both due to be extended until spring next year — five months longer than previous indications.