The Department of Social Protection issued Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment to 283,000 people on Friday.
This should be in their bank accounts or local post office from tomorrow.
This is a new social welfare payment of €350 a week for those who have lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since launching on March 16th, the DSP has received and processed 389,000 applications for the Covid-19 Unemployment Payment.
However, some payments were withheld for various reasons.
Around 15,000 did not meet eligibility criteria e.g they were not previously in employment, they were under 18 years of age or they were still in employment.
A further 8,700 had invalid PPSNs and 6,600 had invalid IBANs.
The Department says it is working very hard to resolve any issues with legitimate applications.
It is contacting the people concerned directly over the next few days.
