How to get both JobKeeper and JobSeeker
- Written by Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute
At A$1,500 a fortnight, JobKeeper has been nothing but a help to the people on it.
The rules required those who had previously been paid more than JobKeeper to stay on their old wage, with the rest topped up by their employer. Those who had previously been paid less (one quarter of them) got a pay rise.
It’ll be less rewarding from the end of...