Parents in receipt of Covid-19 payment eligible for Back to School Allowance

274,000 people are currently in receipt of the pandemic payment. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

The government is to treble its investment into the Back to School Allowance and allow parents on the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) to apply for it.

115,000 thousand families benefited from the scheme last year at a cost of €53.7m which was increased to just under €153m this year.