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THOUSANDS OF WORKERS returning their jobs in hospitality and other sectors over the coming weeks could be overtaxed unless they cancel their Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP).
Some 50,754 hospitality workers received the PUP at the start of this week, down from 54,518 last week, according to figures released by the Department of Social Protection yesterday.
That figure is expected to decline further with the return of indoor hospitality for the fully vaccinated later this month. The Government is currently aiming for a 23 July reopening date.
But the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is urging PUP recipients to contact the Department of Social Protection and cancel their payment before they return to the workplace.
If they’re not proactive, they could be taxed on both their salary and their PUP in their first week back on the job, the professional accountancy body warned.
Like most social welfare payments, the PUP is taxable.
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When a person registers for the income support with the Department of Social Protection, Revenue is automatically informed of the person’s new income.
The same is true when a PUP recipient returns to work — they inform the department, which then informs the Revenue.
This can be done by logging on to MyWelfare.ie.
However, this adjustment takes time and if it’s not completed before the payroll process commences then some employees may be overtaxed.
“As one of the sectors that have been most exposed throughout the pandemic, the long-awaited re-opening of indoor hospitality is a crucially important step for our economic recovery,” said Catriona Allis, head of ACCA Ireland, “not least with the sector employing 180,000 people throughout Ireland.”
“Many of these people will be returning to work for the first time in 15 months, having received the PUP and we are urging them to inform the department of this change to ensure they are not overtaxed.
“While any over-paid tax will eventually be refunded, the net paycheque, for some, could be less than the PUP, putting further pressure on household cash flow.”
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@Henri Poincaré: Was in pennies…..the queue inside for the tills snaked around half the shop lol, all that was missing was the tune that was doing the rounds with the guys dancing carrying coffins over in Africa.
@Henri Poincaré: you can take it that if it’s not reported that there community transmissions, then they are not. They will 100% notify us immediately with a few threats of second wave lockdown.
@Joe:
I sincerely hope you never have to deal with this virus. Your comment shows real disrespect to the people who are suffering loss at this time…. Regardless of their age they have families who still matter and grieve.
Show them some respect.
@Eileen O’Sullivan:
Eileen… We have become somewhat immune to hard hearted people during this scourge. They think they will never have to deal with trauma in their sad little lives. Time will tell….
Keep safe and well.
@Joe: ya joe hope nothing horrid ever happens to any of your family or that you come to realize how difficult it is to burry a loved one in the current situation!
@Joe Toner: hang on. The OP said three families destroyed. He has no idea of the facts. Two things are certain in life, death and taxes. Of course if the 3 people who died were in the prime of their health with young families or were themselves young I would agree.
However in all likelihood these were older people not in great health. When your 90 year old parent dies it is of course sad and my condolences go to everyone who lost somebody during this crisis. But older people die all the time and it doesn’t “destroy families”.
To say 3 families destroyed is a complete over exaggeration and should be called out for what it is. Scaremongering!
@Joe:
I never made any reference to families being “destroyed” Read the comment and don’t accuse me of scaremongering…. Move into reality and resist the urge to make false assumptions…..
Yesterday Dr. Holohan announced there had been 8% excess deaths in Ireland.
In 3 months in Ireland, there are usually about 7500 deaths (source CSO).
8% of 7500 is 600. The number of Coronavirus deaths is 1700. Does that mean that 1100 of the people who died of Coronavirus would have been expected to die anyway in the last three months? So it’s mostly killing people in their final few weeks of life?
@Lesidees: OK, my apologies. I know the virus kills mainly older people with underlying health conditions, but who is to say that it kills 94 year olds and cut short their lives by 3 days rather than 69 year olds who might have lived to 83 without SARS-CoV-2. The virus is very clearly far worse than any normal flu; it has grossly overwhelmed hospitals in Wuhan and Italy. Statistics, FWIW: https://covid19info.live/
@Lesidees: While lockdown only started towards the end of the flu season, Nursing Homes generally appear to have become aware and alarmed about the outbreak early on, and tried to take precautions which is liable to have dramatically reduced potential deaths. Maybe check out a dispute between Tadgh Daly and the HSE.
@Aidan O’ Neill: That’s incorrect. Actually 11th on worldometers which isn’t worth a w$nk due to the way countries report on deaths and the fact that it relies on countries telling the truth on numbers. It also doesn’t take into account excess death rates which is huge. Look at the number of new daily cases on that site for each country and you’ll see we have the lowest number of new cases from the top 65 countries in the world and have had low numbers now for the last 2 weeks.
@Lesidees: Yes, Nursing Homes did suffer a major hit nevertheless, but it could have been far worse. I suspect that it needs to be taken into consideration that they are a bit like meat factories insofar as there are a lot of people in a building, in common areas. Also, many staff would have been living in shared accommodation. It is my understanding that some staff brought the virus in, other transmissions were via untested patients being dumped back in from hospital. I compare the situation of an elderly person living on their own at home.
@Lesidees: assuming the number are correct we have to be careful as the WHO are looking for stats of people who die “with” covid-19 (an active infection) so it would include those who die directly and indirectly – so it is possible that that 1100 people died with covid-19 that may have died anyway.
I think you will find that most people die of heart failure or pneumonia or blood clot or other cause and not directly from covid-19 damage, but indirectly. The question has to be asked is it better to record or ignore the cases where people die with covid-19 but not from covid-19? I think it might be impossible to distinguish cases where the trigger is covid-19.
One can ask the same question of the flu where people die during the flu season and die while they have the flu even if they die of heart failure or even “natural causes” if they die and have the flu I guess they are counted.
But the point I suppose is that at least 600 extra people died who would be expected to be alive without covid-19 being around.
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