Certain embodiments are directed to a system and method of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission termination. The system and method can include at least: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a PUSCH transmission overlapped with repetitions of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process for the UE; and terminating, by the UE, the PUSCH transmission upon detection of the DCI after a fixed number of symbols, wherein the fixed number of symbols is counted from a symbol after the last symbol of a control resource set (CORESET).