Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to pay a Christmas bonus to recipients of social protection payments in 2020; and the date on which this will happen. [30444/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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A 100% Christmas Bonus will be paid this year to recipients of long-term social welfare payments (minimum payment of €20).

On an exceptional basis this year, the payment of a Christmas Bonus equivalent to 100% of the weekly payment will be paid to recipients of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) and equivalent recipients of jobseeker payments who have been in receipt of these payments for four months or more.

The Bonus will be paid in early December. Over 1.5 million people will benefit, including pensioners, people with disabilities, carers, lone parents and the long-term unemployed.