Changes to JobKeeper scheme 'to reduce costs but lift unemployment' | Sky News Australia

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says the Morrison government is using measures to reduce the cost of the JobKeeper scheme and as such the outcome will mean a lift in unemployment. JobSeeker payments will be slashed to $815 a fortnight from September as the Coalition moves to keep COVID-19 support payments until at least the end of the year.

Those figures will be reduced to $1000 and $650 in the March quarter. The $550 JobSeeker supplement will be reduced to $250 in September but those on it will be able to earn $300 without affecting the payments. Mr Clennell told Sky News host Peta Credlin the announcements today are “a good solution in the centre”. “It’s interesting just how much of a difference the two JobKeepers are going to be,” he said.

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Too many Australians 'left behind by JobKeeper' | Sky News AustraliaThe government's changes to the JobSeeker and JobKeeper schemes have failed to fix the obvious errors which have seen some Australians overpaid and others losing out entirely, according to Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers.\n\nJobSeeker payments will be slashed to $815 a fortnight from September as the Coalition moves to keep COVID-19 support payments until at least the end of the year.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison also announced JobKeeper support would be reduced to $1200 per fortnight towards the end of September with a lower payment of $750 for those working less than 20 hours per week.\n\nThose figures will be reduced to $1000 and $650 in the March quarter.\n\nThe $550 JobSeeker supplement will be reduced to $250 in September but those on it will be able to earn $300 without affecting the payments.\n\n'It is very troubling ... to see unemployment rising in the September quarter, in the December quarter, and it will keep rising,' Mr Chalmers said.\n\n'We want to see the government do a much better job rolling out this new phase of government support than they did when they were rolling out the first phase.\n\n'We shouldn't forget the government has now 'fessed up to borrowing $6 billion to overpay some Australians while some Australians were unnecessarily excluded from the (JobKeeper) scheme.'\n\nImage: News Corp Australia JEChalmers Many of my colleague working 10 hours per weeks But they are eligible for $1500 per fortnight lmao JEChalmers Forever in the shadows... JEChalmers And further and further the opposition goes into irrelevancy. You've got nothing Chalmers. The only thing you can stutter out is the money borrowed and the debt. Which your party was aware of and help facilitate. Hypocrisy of the highest order.
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PM not ruling out extending JobKeeper until the next election | Sky News AustraliaThe prime minister has not ruled out extending the JobKeeper program all the way until the next election with some Liberal MPs speculating the next federal poll could be held as early as late 2021, Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says.\n\nJobSeeker payments will be slashed to $815 a fortnight from September as the Coalition moves to keep COVID-19 support payments until at least the end of the year.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison also announced JobKeeper support would be reduced to $1200 per fortnight towards the end of September with a lower payment of $750 for those working less than 20 hours per week.\n\nThose figures will be reduced to $1000 and $650 in the March quarter.\n\nThe $550 JobSeeker supplement will be reduced to $250 in September but those on it will be able to earn $300 without affecting the payments.\n\nMr Clennell said while the prime minister argued he is not thinking about the politics in the midst of a pandemic, he did not rule out the prospect of an early election.\n\n“The extension of the JobKeeper scheme, albeit tapered down, until March with the prime minister not ruling out extending the scheme past that date and not ruling out JobKeeper might even extend as far as the next election,” Mr Clennell said.\n\n“Also the PM was not ruling out, as is being speculated in Liberal circles, an early election late next year.\n\n“Good to see the next election not on the mind of the prime minister as he deals with this ongoing crisis.\n\n“Last month, Phillip Coorey from the Australian Financial Review quoted the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg telling a Coalition party room meeting that the election battle between Labor and the Coalition would be and I quote 'one of limitless providers versus an enabler' in a story headlined ‘Spenders versus enablers: Coalition frames next election’. \n\n'And we can see some of that framing today with the government announcing it will bring back mutual obligation for those on Job Seeker – even for those affected by aclennell If so labor dump albo in November go with Tony Burke he will knock out Scott Morrison in two seconds Burke is from the centre he is a political brawler he looks very prime ministerial he talks with a clear voice every time he does an interview he hits it out of the park auspol aclennell 'The prime minister has not ruled out extending the JobKeeper program all the way until the next election with some Liberal MPs speculating the next federal poll could be held as early as late 2021,' Before the money runs out. aclennell Morrisons hole response to the virus has been about getting him re-elected what a fraud
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