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2020 Almost 52,000 New People BreastCheck Services Resume
After Pandemic Suspension
28th, Sign Up For PUP Benefits C

October lmost 52,000 more peo- Department of Social tion to PUP is to apply online President & Founding

ple have been received Protection added that 3,900 so that your payment can be Publisher
| Paddy McCarthy
Athe Pandemic workers are currently in processed as quickly as possi- Editor
EXAMINER week after the country moved Illness Benefit payment. Social instructed. reopen on a phased basis this week Associate Publisher
receipt of an Enhanced
Ms
ble,”
Unemployment Payment this
Humphreys
BreastCheck services will begin to
Grahame Curtis
“Anybody who has been
for
Minister
intoLevel5restrictions.
after being suspended in March due
Marc-Yves Tumin
Protection
More than 295,000 people
temporarily laid-off should
Heather
IRISH were issued the payment on Humphreys said the latest apply for the PUP online via to the Covid-19 pandemic. News Editor
Staff from the screening service
Tuesday, at a cost of €85 mil-
www.mywelfare.ie – that is
figures reflect the economic
David Carter
lion to the state. impact of the decision to the quickest and easiest way were redeployed to assist hospitals in Arts & Entertainment Editor
managing waiting lists of women
Included in that figure are move to Level 5. to claim and receive a pay- with symptoms of the disease. Brad Balfour
11,000 people who were “My key message in rela- ment,” she added. C CEO of Breast Cancer Ireland
working in the accommoda- Aisling Hurley has advised people Sales Director
John O’Rourke
tion and food sector. who notice an abnormality to see a
Dublin recorded the high- GP right away. Classified Advertising
est number of people in “It is a long time, but you know John O’Rourke
receipt of the PUP with what the most important thing is, is Art Director
99,157, followed by Cork that they go now to their GP and they Heidi Gross Kelley
with 28,962. Leitrim had the get themselves checked,” she said. Contributors
lowest number of people There are eight signs and symp- Joe Kavanagh, C.S. O’Brien, Mike
Fitzpatrick, Seamus Kelleher, John
signed up to the payment toms, a lump is just a minor one. Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
with 1,703. “What we’re trying to say to peo- McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
A fourth rate of PUP has ple is that don’t wait and don’t sit Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
been added for those who back and wait for BreastCheck to Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
had been earning over €400 resume,” she added. “We are now Daly, Jim McKeon
per week prior to signing up saying to people they need to be Contributing Photographers
for the payment, with eligi- Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
ble recipients, both new and more breast aware.” C Wong
existing, receiving the Circulation
increased payment automati- Taxi Drivers ‘challenged’ John Philip, Manager
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