{"id":987524446,"date":"2021-08-13T03:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T02:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/australian-government-covid-19-disaster-payments\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:07:45","slug":"australian-government-covid-19-disaster-payments","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/australian-government-covid-19-disaster-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Government COVID-19 disaster payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia provides the COVID-19 Disaster Payment divided into&nbsp;three different rates&nbsp;based on the number of hours of work lost by an eligible recipient and whether or not they are receiving an income support payment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$200 per week for those in receipt of an income support payment who lost eight or more hours of work per week or a full day of their usual hours per week (what the person was scheduled to work including shifts of less than eight hours) as a result of the lockdown<\/li>\n<li>$450 for those who lost between eight and less than 20 hours of work per week or a full day of their usual work hours per week as a result of the lockdown and<\/li>\n<li>$750 for those who lost 20 hours or more of work as a result of the lockdown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/About_Parliament\/Parliamentary_Departments\/Parliamentary_Library\/pubs\/rp\/rp2122\/Quick_Guides\/COVID-19DisasterPayments\">click<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Parliament of&nbsp;&nbsp;Australia<\/p>\n<p>Photo by&nbsp;By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@ian-panelo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing Ahead<\/a> from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/6564832\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia provides the COVID-19 Disaster Payment divided into&nbsp;three different rates&nbsp;based on the number of hours of work lost by an eligible recipient and whether or not they are receiving an income support payment: $200 per week for those in receipt of an income support payment who lost eight or more hours of work per week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987529518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,124,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}