JobKeeper

Thursday, May 28

Huge JobKeeper error revealed as costs revised by $60 billion

The federal government’s coronavirus response bill has been slashed by $60 billion after about 1000 businesses made “significant” reporting errors, according to Treasury and the tax office.

Centrelink explainer: your questions answered

In the past few months, InDaily has been inundated with Centrelink-related questions from readers. We’ve compiled a selection and had them answered.

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Officials coy on JobSeeker wind back as one million expected to join queue

The senior federal social services bureaucrat won’t say when the government might wind back its pandemic-inflated unemployment benefit payments.

Centrelink payment confusion but govt promises no disadvantage

Hundreds of welfare recipients, who expected to receive their first temporary coronavirus supplement on Monday, have been left confused after discovering the increased payment won’t start until their next reporting period.

Business support payments flow amid warnings of permanent job losses

More than $4 billion in support subsidies have already been paid out to businesses and staff hit by coronavirus shutdowns, as Treasury warns some jobs and businesses won’t survive the nation’s biggest economic shock since the Great Depression.

"We won't pay them to do nothing": Government casuals left in limbo

Premier Steven Marshall says he is “happy” to lobby the national cabinet for the Federal Government’s JobKeeker payment to be extended to government enterprise workers, but his Treasurer is adamant “we won’t be paying them a wage for doing nothing”.

$130b job-saving package set to pass Parliament

A $130 billion wage subsidy package designed to save six million jobs will be approved by federal parliament, as a reduced number of politicians meet in Canberra.