Victorian government furious over NSW support after PM announced emergency relief package - NEWS.com.au

The Prime Minister has been accused of favouring NSW after offering a financial relief to struggling businesses during the latest outbreak.

The Victorian Government released a scathing statement on Tuesday afternoon which stated residents were “sick and tired” of having to beg for help and that the support for NSW represented a “double standard”.

“Everyone in Australia believes that people in Sydney and NSW deserve every possible support as they battle a second wave and a long lockdown,” the statement said.

“But Victorians are rightly sick and tired of having to beg for every scrap of support from the federal government.”

“It shouldn’t take a crisis in Sydney for the Prime Minister to take action but we are seeing the same double standard, time and time again.”

The statement came after Scott Morrison announced a cash rescue plan for NSW workers and businesses as the Sydney Covid-19 outbreak rages on.

From Sunday, the Covid-19 Disaster Payment will increase from $500 to $600 per week if a person has lost 20 hours or more of work a week, or $325 to $375 each week if a person has lost between eight and 20 hours.

This will become a recurring payment for approved recipients for as long as the Commonwealth declared hotspot and lockdown restrictions remain in place.

People will be eligible for the payment even if they are still working, provided they have lost more than eight hours or a full day of work.

Small and medium businesses will also receive cash support from Sunday for 40 per cent of their payroll payments, at a minimum of $1500 and a maximum of $10,000 per week, provided they don’t lay off staff.

These support payments will be available to businesses with or without staff in NSW.

To receive the payment, businesses will be required to maintain their full time, part time and long term casual staffing level as of July 13, 2021.

For businesses without staff, such as sole traders, the payment will be $1000 per week.

However, businesses will only be eligible if their turnover is now 30 per cent lower than an equivalent two-week period in 2019.

The Commonwealth will fund 50 per cent of the cost of the business support payments, with the NSW Government to fund the rest.

From next Monday, the Covid-19 Disaster Payment will also be made available to those outside of a Commonwealth declared hotspot, provided they meet the criteria for the payment.

“No matter where you live, if you are suffering at home because of the stay-at-home provisions, you are able to make sure that you and your loved ones don’t go through that stress,” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

While the Commonwealth government will be funding the Disaster Payment for those within a declared hotspot, the NSW Government will remain responsible for any payments outside of hot spots.

A number of additional support measures for commercial and residential tenants will also be introduced by the state government.

NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet announced that there would be no evictions for commercial tenants, and no evictions for the next 60 days for private residents who have experience a reduction in income of at least 25 per cent.

Mr Perrottet also told reporters that the NSW government would offer land tax rebates for residential and commercial landlords who provide rental relief for their tenants.

Landlords who don’t qualify for land tax will be provided a $1500 payment instead.

Mr Morrison said the NSW outbreak had proved to be “more severe and more dangerous” than the Victorian outbreak earlier in the year. He said it was in the national interest that an upgraded set of arrangements for co-operation between the commonwealth and the states and territories be put in place.

Mr Morrison noted that the support plan was not necessarily a one-off for Sydney, stating the arrangement would be available to other states and territories for future lockdowns as a result of Covid-19.

The new support plan is estimate to cost about $500 million a week, split equally between the NSW and Commonwealth government.

NSW announced 89 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the state’s total active cases to 745.

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