People need to look for 4 jobs a month or study

Its not meant to be more than of you were working,so those who were getting $1500 when normally they would earn less should have to pay it back. The same as those winging about it beingreduced. It is an intrim payment you should be actively applying for jobs or studying or retraining. Not pretending or applying for jobs you are not qualified to do just to fill numbers. Likewise dont apply for places that only predominantly teenagers fast food etc. Ifyou can afford tattoos, alcohol and smokes on centrelink you should not be getting a payment. Those are not essentials!

I do not go to work and get abused to pay tax for people to spend money on booze, drugs and alcohol then cry poor me.

They qerw too high to begin with. Should be based on sliding scale of what person earnt pre covid. Not more. Pensioners didnt get much yet have the same expenses.

Carers get $944 fortnight. That equates to $4 max per hour again carers are 24/7 not 9 to 5 (5days week) I think people should consider themselves lucky.

Jobkeeper should only of existed for permanent part time and full time workers who could maintain their job in some format with a downturn in business - ie the business is still able to operate at a determinable minimum capacity (say 70%) and the employee was still required to complete their shifts. If the business was not able to operate and the employer not able to continue working they should of been given the option to take leave with no pay and access to a jobseeker derivative to supplement at the same rate as jobseeker providing the business could guarantee their employee a job after covid. If not they should of been forced to find other work or go on jobseeker. The jobkeeper payment should of been on a sliding scale dependant on permanent hours worked, not one payment fits all. All casual workers should of been pushed onto jobseeker if they were unable to secure other work because quite frankly that is the nature of casual work. Jobseeker should of had an increase to accomodate the increased cost of living - I think they have it about right on the 2nd time around (the decreased amount). I think their should of been monthly reporting around jobkeeper.

I think that all people accessing jobkeeper and jobseeker should of been subject to an available income test. If they have the money in the bank to support themselves, then they should of been doing that prior to being able to claim either payment.

At the moment the system is a black hole of fraud and over payment.

SIL is claiming 1500 jobseeker while still working her 20 hours a week....wont help out and do extra shifts because it means she is ' working for free'

What about those who have put their health and family member's health at risk being made to work through all of this and are still paying tax? I know a lot of people doing nothing for their $750 when I work 4 days in an unsafe environment and take home less than that.

My cousins partner lives at home and pays no bills and goes out twice a day for meals and gambles on dogs

Maybe it will encourage those who can work to return to work. It’s not money to bludge off.

Brainstorm

Good. Now for the fun part when it's all over. PAYING IT BACK.

Say hello to

Budget Cuts - Lots of them
Public sector job cuts
Higher Taxes or no more tax cuts
Possible Increase to GST
Stricter criteria to access services.

Going to be a fun decade or two to pay this baxk

Hope it's all worth the free ride now.

$550 download to $250 definitely NOT fair. How do we appeal this decision 😬

I think what they’ve done with Jobkeeper is fair but think they should have kept the Covid Supplement a little higher, maybe $300/$350 pf and they should have guranteed it till March like they’ve done with Jobkeeper.

You cant keep paying people who aren't working the same amount as people who are, because there are costs involved in going to work, meaning people work a 40 hour week and end up worse off.

I wish there was some way they could weed out those that genuinely need it from those that think with is one big friggin paid holiday

It is so easy to say get a job!!! There is 10269 jobs available in Perth according to seek right now and how many unemployed people? Then you get people who have been out of the work force for how ever many years due to raising kids, illness or what ever. It is not so easy to get a job in practice.

I understand there is people who take advantage of the system but there is a lot of people that need it. If given the choice I think most people would prefer to work.

I've never understood job keeper. Maybe I'm a bit slow (pregnancy brain lol) but my friends get it and they still work so I understand why the top up? Not having a dig I genuinely don't understand it.

Absolutely. It was said from the start it was a temporary measure & it would be phased out.