More than 700 businesses in Clare have availed of the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme since September.
The scheme has replaced the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme, with the State paying a percentage of employees’ wages for those eligible for the initiative since the beginning of the pandemic.
More than 6 million euro has been claimed by employers in this county on staff wages since the initiative began.
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Nationally, more than 20,000 businesses made claims to the scheme costing over 244 million euro to the state.