COVID-19 Financial Support
Feb 14, 2022
COVID-19 Financial Support
If your income has been affected by COVID-19, you may be able to apply for financial support.
The COVID-19 Short-Term Absence Payment
The Short-Term Absence payment is for businesses (including self-employed) to help pay for workers who can't work from home or attend work
while they wait for the results of a Covid-19 test. To be eligible, workers need to be unable to work from home and need to miss work while
waiting for their test results.
There’s a one-off payment of $359 for each eligible worker. Employers or the self-employed can apply for any worker once in any 30-day
period, unless a health official or doctor tells the worker to get another test.
To apply, businesses must not be getting any of the following payments at the same time for the same worker to cover any situation that is
also covered by Short-Term Absence Payment.
- any other COVID-19 Wage Subsidy, or
- Leave Support Scheme payments.
You cannot get more than one COVID-19 payment for the same employee at the same time. Find out more about the Short-Term Absence
Payment on the Work
and Income Website.
The COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme
The Leave Support Scheme payment is for businesses (including self-employed) to help pay for workers who can't work from home or attend work
after being asked to self-isolate for more than 4 days.
There’s a one-off payment of $600 a week per full-time worker who is working 20 hours or more a week and $359 a week per part-time worker
working less than 20 hours a week. Should your employee or yourself need to self-isolate for more than 11 calender days and cant work from
home then you can apply for a second week payment. You can also apply for a third and subsequent leave support payments for every 7 days of
continued isolation.
To apply, businesses must not be getting any of the following payments at the same time for the same worker to cover any situation that is
also covered by Short-Term Absence Payment.
- any other COVID-19 Wage Subsidy, or
- Leave Support Scheme payments.
You cannot get more than one COVID-19 payment for the same employee at the same time. Find out more about the Leave Support Scheme payment on the Work and Income Website.
To find out what financial support you could access, click
here.
Or of course just get in touch with us - We are here to help!
Don't forget to look after yourself! It’s more important now than ever to have awareness of our mental
health and know some key steps to help build resiliency. Here
are some tips
to manage uncertainty from our recent webinar with the amazing mindfulness coach, Maya Nova. A reminder there is also the Xero
Assistance Programme (XAP)
still available to use. Xero customers on a starter, standard or premium plan can access free and confidential counselling and resources
through the programme.
Take care.
The team at Malloch McClean