A Treasury report shows $27 billion of the $89 billion program went to businesses that did better than they feared during the COVID restrictions.
Labor has hit back at Coalition claims they would bid to force people to repay cash received under the $89 billion wage subsidy scheme.
James Woodford,the director of Hipcamp Australia,said the company had decided to voluntarily return $51,000 in payments after bookings took off for the organisation’s listings across Australia after lockdown last year.
A review of the $89 billion wage subsidy scheme found 31 per cent of recipients who triggered compliance checks were not eligible for the wage subsidy.
A clear majority of Australians want to know which companies got paid JobKeeper funds and how much they got.
Queensland Liberal senator Gerard Rennick is among those who want the ATO to request any companies whose revenue increased to repay their JobKeeper support.
The genius of JobKeeper was keeping workers linked to the employers. The new payments break that link - and too many workers choose to stay at home,and that suits too many bosses.
Struggling businesses relying on income support to survive lockdown fear jobs will be lost in a sea of red tape created by the NSW government after it unexpectedly tightened eligibility tests around its JobSaver program.
The ATO stopped or identified more than $1 billion in questionable payments under the federal government’s JobKeeper wage subsidy program,saying the level of wrongful claims under the massive scheme was “extremely low”.
Multimedia giant Disney has refused to clarify how much it claimed through the JobKeeper wage subsidy program amid revelations workers at the company used the scheme
When unveiling JobKeeper last year Scott Morrison said it was only fair that everyone got the same level of support,but it has not turned out that way.