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The re-opening of retail after the restrictions of the lockdown is being hampered by the inability of businesses to attract back experienced staff, leading to a call for the tapering of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment down to the level of unemployment benefit.

Workers made unemployed by the impact of Covid-19, and the lockdowns, enter 2021 facing tax liabilities on the welfare which sustained their livelihoods throughout last year.

Fears that workers, particularly those in the hospitality and retail sectors, might return to work for the Christmas period only to find themselves unemployed in January, with no access to the PUP, have been eased.