{"id":7610,"date":"2020-05-05T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T01:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coffeeobsession.com.au\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2023-10-20T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T09:07:45","slug":"covid-19-rent-relief-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/news\/covid-19-rent-relief-victoria","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Rent Relief &#8211; Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>COVID-19 Rent Relief &#8211; Victoria<\/h2>\n<p>Did you know that the coronavirus rent relief grant is available to any renters in Victoria experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19?<\/p>\n<p><strong>To be eligible you will need to meet the below criteria:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have, or will shortly have a bond registered with the Victorian Residential Tenancies Bond Authority<\/li>\n<li>Have registered your revised rental agreement with Consumer Affairs Victoria or gone through mediation<\/li>\n<li>Have less than $5,000 in savings<\/li>\n<li>Still be paying at least 30% of your income in rent<\/li>\n<li>Your household income must be less than $1,903 per week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no citizenship or permanent residency requirements for applicants, meaning you may be eligible as a casual worker on holiday and working visas, skilled visas, seasonal workers, New Zealanders and all refugees and temporary protection visa holders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumer.vic.gov.au\/resources-and-tools\/advice-in-a-disaster\/coronavirus-covid19-and-your-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can register your agreement with Consumer Affairs Victoria here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.absoluteimmigration.com\/media\/2020\/05\/05\/COVID-19_-_Victorian_Regulations_-_flyer_%28final%29.pdf\">Victoria\u2019s COVID-19 Rent Relief legislation here<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; prepared by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.millsoakley.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mills Oakley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Download Mills Oakley&#8217;s COVID-19 Rent Relief legislation<\/h4>\n<p>Download now<\/p>\n<p><a role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/COVID-19_-_Victorian_Regulations_-_flyer_final.pdf\"><br \/>\nDownload now<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the coronavirus rent relief grant is available to any renters in Victoria experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19?<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","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=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/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=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}