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JobKeeper payment: how will it work, who will miss out and how to get it?

  • Written by Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
JobKeeper payment: how will it work, who will miss out and how to get it?@shotsoflouis/Upplash, CC BY-NC

The A$130 billion $1,500-per-fortnight JobKeeper payment will benefit six million Australians for six months, with payments expected from May 1.

Eligible businesses include not-for-profits and businesses with turnovers of less than $1 billion per year whose turnover is down 30%. Businesses with turnovers of more than...

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