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25.01.2022 More cash payments coming but ParentsNext resumes ....

25.01.2022 ScoMo announces a new Centrelink payment for Victoria: The Pandemic Support Payment Scott Morrison has announced a new Centrelink payment of $1500 per fortnight, modeled on the Victorian government coronavirus payment. If you don't get JobKeeper, JobSeeker but you need to stay home as a result of taking a test or being told to isolate you can get Pandemic Support Payment. You can get it more than once if you have to isolate more than once.... "I want Victorians to know the Australian government will provide all the support you need," said ScoMo just minutes ago. See more

21.01.2022 Single Parent Permit now compulsory in Victoria Single parents need special permission to access childcare and take their children out, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has just announced minutes ago. Single parents in Melbourne and other COVID-19 hotspots in Victoria need to demonstrate there is no other adult in their household who can look after their child while they are at work. If single parents do not have a special permit they can be fined for transporting their child t...o a care centre. There is an element of honesty in this but there is no grace period, said Mr Andrews. Under Victoria’s Stage Four restrictions, essential workers need a Permitted Worker Permit to leave home (link below). https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/permitted-worker-scheme-covid-19

20.01.2022 JobKeeper is flowing straight through to shareholders Nick Scali Furniture, Adairs and other retail giants are paying HIGHER DIVIDENDS and profits to their millionaire owners while collecting JobKeeper from Centrelink to pay their staff. The Scali family will receive $2.5 million in dividends after the company increased its payout to shareholders by 12.5% last week. Nick Scali Furniture received $3.9 million in JobKeeper payments in Australia and New Zealand.... Adairs reported a massive 19% increase in profit to $35.3 million after collecting $11.3 million from JobKeeper and increased its dividend payout to shareholders. Retail sales rose 8.2% in June 2020, compared with June 2019, boosted by $30 billion in superannuation withdrawals and $109 billion in additional Centrelink payments. Labor says companies who pay higher dividends while collecting JobKeeper undermine confidence in the scheme. Senator Rex Patrick said the Nick Scali directors might like to reconsider their position. Full story behind paywall at Aust Financial Review: https://www.afr.com//jobkeeper-dividends-fail-pub-test-lab

16.01.2022 Breaking: COVID-19 cases to hit 1,100 per day in Victoria next week. Thursday’s Australian will report government modeling showing the worst of coronavirus is yet to hit Victoria and Australia. Brace for Dan Andrews reporting 1,000 new coronavirus cases in a day. ... There will still be hundreds of new cases per day when hard lockdown is due to end in mid-September.

15.01.2022 JobKeeper eligibility will ease. People employed on 1 July may now be eligible. The JobKeeper extension and changes apply Australia-wide but $13 billion of the extra $15.6 billion budgeted for this will flow to Victoria. 550,000 more Victorians will go onto JobKeeper meaning 1.5 million Victorians will be on the scheme or almost half of the entire private sector workforce of the state.... JobKeeper payrates will fall to $1200 from end of September and $1,000 per fortnight from 1 January.

13.01.2022 Budget 2020 - $250 for Christmas, for some... Family Tax Benefit recipients, aged, veterans, carers and DSP pensioners will get Josh Frydenberg's $250 bonus payment but not JobSeeker, Youth Allowance or other Centrelink beneficiaries. The Liquid Assets Test has resumed on JobSeeker as well as the full income test for all states including Victoria.... There is no rise in JobSeeker yet announced. ParentsNext mutual obligation program has resumed but you can opt for phone or online meetings. Unemployed people will not get tax cuts or bonus payments, face stricter tests and cuts to payments in a few months. This is a budget giving more money to the people who are doing ok. Those at the bottom face cuts.

11.01.2022 600,000 more Aussies could get debts repaid. Link to register for class action is below: 600,000 Aussies who have missed out on the first wave of Robodebt repayments could get the total amount repaid back to them with interest.... 373,000 Robodebts are being repaid now but 600,000 more debts have not been repaid. Next week Gordon Legal goes to court on behalf of 600,000 Aussies who replied to Centrelink robodebt enquiries and gave Centrelink evidence that was used against them. Register your interest below. In effect, people who opened their mail and replied (600,000) have not been repaid, while people who threw their unopened Centrelink mail in the bin have now been repaid. On 29 May, facing a damaging trial due to start within days, the Commonwealth announced that it accepts Robodebts are unlawful and will refund 373,000 people. Not included are people who did the right thing and handed over to Centrelink information that it would never have obtained otherwise and was used as evidence of a debt. Those people go to court next week. Who is part of this? Check your eligibility here: You are a group member if: 1) You were in receipt of one of these payments: Newstart Allowance Youth Allowance Disability Support Pension Austudy Allowance Age Pension Carer Payment Parenting Payment Partner Allowance Sickness Allowance Special Benefit Widow A Allowance Widow B Pension. AND 2) Any time after April 2015 you were sent Centrelink correspondence requesting you update employment income information, AND 3) Following this, Centrelink said you owed a debt, AND 4) You paid all or part of it. https://register.robodebtclassaction.com.au/

11.01.2022 Say NO to the cashless society. It's not just Centrelink recipients who face restricted access to cash. Scott Morrison proposes to ban cash payments over $10K, so we are calling for a right to use cash for payments under $10K. Six million Australians rely on cash. Cash is safe, private, reliable and surcharge-free.But some shops say they are "going cashless" denying the public the right to choose cash as a form of payment if we choose. Card payments can attract fees, are not ...private, can be questioned later by other people, government agencies, banks, lenders etc and are not reliable. Please share and sign the petition to say NO to a cashless Australia

09.01.2022 800,000 families face September "CLIFF" say banks 800,000 struggling families who were granted six month deferrals on their mortgage repayments will be asked to resume full repayments from September said Anna Bligh from the Bankers Association. Borrowers can apply for a four month extension but getting it will not be automatic.... The other option is entering the hardship process. Read more about what that means: http://unofficialcentrelink.news/ (1 MIN READ and links to big 4 bank COVID-19 support and hardship services).

04.01.2022 Alan Tudge knew fake robo-debts were taking lives according to court documents. March 2015: Centrelink's robo-debt program starts sending debt letters March 2015: Centrelink knows that many robo-debts are errors.... March 2017: Minister for Centrelink Alan Tudge told 33% of robo-debts are later corrected to $0. July 2017, Alan Tudge told a Centrelink recipient had suicided following receipt of a robo-debt letter. June 2020: Scott Morrison apologises for robo-debt. A later minister, Paul Fletcher, was told, according to the claims made in court, that income averaging (robo-debt) was not an overpayment.

03.01.2022 BREAKING: Child care GAP FEES to stay Child care and Early Learning Centres will still be able to charge parents gap fees, despite enormous subsidies and additional subsidies announced today. A new COVID-19 child care package for Victoria, just announced by Education Minister Dan Tehan comes into effect tomorrow, Thursday 6 August.... All Victorian parents will families get an extra 30 days of allowable absences on top of the 42 days parents can now get. Rural Victorians get more access to OSHC and an employment guarantee will protect early childhood workers. Centres will get an extra 5% government subsidy to remain open. Dan Tehan says centres will be guaranteed subsidies equal to 80 - 85% of their pre-COVID-19 income and was asked if these new subsidies are conditional on centres not charging parents: "No we cannot by law compel services to waive gap fees but we are doing everything we can to encourage services to waive gap fees." Please keep your children enrolled, there will be children at every centre. "We don’t think there will be cases where there will be no children. We want to incentivise centres to remain open.

02.01.2022 How to get Pandemic Leave Payment: Have to self-isolate, got no sick leave, can’t get JobSeeker or JobKeeper and live in Victoria ONLY.