{"id":7596,"date":"2020-06-25T09:54:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coffeeobsession.com.au\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2023-10-20T05:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:47:16","slug":"victoria-offers-one-off-covid-19-support-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/news\/victoria-offers-one-off-covid-19-support-payment","title":{"rendered":"Victoria offers one-off COVID-19 support payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Victoria offers one-off COVID-19 support payment<\/h2>\n<p>The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services is providing a one-off $1,500 payment designed to financially support Victorian workers who, as of 20 June, have been instructed by the department to self-isolate or quarantine at home because they are diagnosed with COVID-19 or are a close contact of a confirmed case.<\/p>\n<p>This support is available to anyone currently residing in Victoria and includes some Temporary Visa holders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is eligible for the COIVD-19 worker support payment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for the COVID-19 support payment you must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have coronavirus or be a close contact and have been instructed by the by the Department of Health and Human Services to self-isolate or quarantine at home<\/li>\n<li>Be 17 years and over<\/li>\n<li>Currently reside in Victoria (including people on Temporary Protection Visas and Temporary Working Visas 457 and 482)<\/li>\n<li>Be in continuing employment, likely to have worked during the period of self-isolation or quarantine at home and unable to work as a result of the requirement to self-isolate or quarantine at home<\/li>\n<li>Be workers who are not receiving any income, earnings or salary maintenance from their work as a result of not being able to work during the period of self-isolation or quarantine at home<\/li>\n<li>Be workers that have exhausted sick leave entitlements including any special pandemic leave<\/li>\n<li>Not be receiving or eligible for the JobKeeper payment or other forms of Australian Government income support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Workers include those that are permanent, casual, part-time, fixed term, and self-employed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to apply for a COVID-19 hardship payment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no application process to access the COVID-19 hardship payment.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 case and contact tracing team will directly contact all confirmed COVID-19 cases and their close contacts. During this call, a needs assessment for the COVID-19 hardship payment will be done over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>This is the only way to access this payment.<\/p>\n<p>For further information about the payment or to find out if you&#8217;re eligible contact us directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services is providing a one-off $1,500 payment designed to financially support Victorian workers who, as of 20 June, have been instructed by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[16,18],"class_list":["post-7596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-482-visa","tag-working-visa-australia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}