Home
Care Sheet
Visitor Photos
Product Selection Guides
Bearded Dragon Care Q&A
Forums
New posts
Search forums
Resources
Latest reviews
Search resources
Bearded Dragon Care Q&A
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New resources
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Help
Website Help Guides
Contact Us
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Website & Community
Break Room (formerly Off Topic)
Life under social isolation or mandatory "stay home orders".
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1938590, member: 81934"] ScoMo is the nick name for Scott Morrison ( the PM ). Yep, everyone on pensions and govt allowances ( income support) had little batch of money given as "go and spend it" right now money in March , the princely sum of $750. Lots of people ended blowing it on booze ( filled their spare fridges ) , others blew it on the gee gees , the dogs , or stocked up on fags or pot , others headed off to the nearest Coles , Woolworths , IGA or the local supermarket to stock up on dunny paper, mince, flour, paper towels and tinned goods to stock up their pantries, others promptly used to pay bills , very few ended up saving it (which was the whole idea - a short sharp economic stimulus to get more money spent and prop up the economy for week or so). Then a few weeks later when the national economy was shut down and the borders "closes" they instituted the JOBKEEPER payment through the tax system that is supposed to go through the employer to the "stood down" workers $1500 per fortnight when everyone was shocked by mile long queues of people who had lost their jobs overnight wanting to apply for the Dole , the idea of JOBKEEPER is it keeps the employees on their bosses books and keeps them off the Dole queue and in theory when things renormalize these JOBKEEPERS simply return to work when called back . At the same time , newly unemployed people who would have ended up on Youth Allowance or NewStart (the Dole) are now on an enhanced version the Dole called JOBSEEKER where they get a Covid19 Allowance of $550 added to their allowance to soften the blow. [url=https://treasury.gov.au/coronavirus/homebuilder]https://treasury.gov.au/coronavirus/homebuilder[/url] very few home renovators will go even close to qualifying for this , you'd have to have a MAJOR project and not even upgrading a bathroom or a kitchen or adding a big off ground deck , or solar panels + storage , will come even close ( even combined ), the very tight time line is also a big obstacle to being able to benefit ( only people with a lazy $150k and a builder lined , with DA done and dusted , and everything sorted stand a chance to getting their $25k grant ). IMO a scheme aimed at the rich end of town and no use to working and middle class families. [url=https://treasury.gov.au/coronavirus/jobkeeper]https://treasury.gov.au/coronavirus/jobkeeper[/url] JOBSEEKER [url=https://treasury.gov.au/coronavirus/households/increased-income-support]https://treasury.gov.au/coronavirus/households/increased-income-support[/url] [url=https://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-03/Fact_sheet-Payments_to_support_households_0.pdf]https://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-03/Fact_sheet-Payments_to_support_households_0.pdf[/url] Some states have been generous with home improvement grants for smaller projects , ie NT , QLD, and WA , I live in NSW and am yet see what the NSW Premier ( NSW's head minister ) might announce to try to help the building industry when the Federal Government's HOMEBUILDER scheme fails to deliver any lasting employment in NSW in the building industry , maybe she's thinking the homes damaged by the bushfire disaster over summer will give NSW builders the economic stimulus they need to keep their workers busy ( unlikely in NSW as from what has been reported on ABC , very few rebuilds and repairs of homes damaged by the fires have been settled ( works approved by the insurers ) and a large number of the victims have found they are under insured , and a large number had no insurance at all ( they really needed covid19 , the economy disaster and loss of tourist income like a hole in the head ). [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Website & Community
Break Room (formerly Off Topic)
Life under social isolation or mandatory "stay home orders".
Top
Bottom