COVID-19 – Key information for employees, business owners & self-employed

Dipendra KC
Chartered Accountant
KC Accounting and Tax Services Ltd
Phone: 021-188 5419
Email: dipenkca@xtra.co.nz

To help with COVID-related financial pressures, businesses, organisations and self-employed people can now get support. There are few different types of payments.

The COVID-19 Wage Subsidy is a payment for eligible businesses so they can keep paying staff and protect jobs. This payment is $600 per full-time worker and $359 per part-time worker, per week.

Lockdown
The COVID-19 Wage Subsidy is a payment for eligible businesses so they can keep paying staff and protect jobs. This payment is $600 per full-time worker and $359 per part-time worker, per week.
 
The Leave Support Scheme gives Alert Level 4 businesses a two-week lump sum payment so they can keep paying workers who must stay home due to COVID and can’t work from home. This payment is also $600 per full-time worker and $359 per part-time worker, per week.
 
The Short-Term Absence Payment is a one-off payment of $359 for employees who can’t work from home, but who need to miss work while they wait for a COVID-19 test result.
 
Other payment types are also available. To find out about the financial help you can receive, click below.
Governement Financial Support