Coronavirus Australia live update: regional Victoria restrictions easing but Melbourne lockdown remains; more NSW hotspots

That will be a payment of $500 for those who would ordinarily work more than 20 hours in a week and $325 for those who would work less than 20 hours a week.

It will be available to a person or Australian resident, these are class permitted to work in Australia.

The person is at least 17 years old. The period occurs from the date of activation for an area which has been locked down for more than seven days.

I should stress, this is a similar arrangement that exists in New Zealand where their payments for this type of support kick in after seven days, not before.

The person resides or works in the area defined as a commonwealth determined hotspot.

The person was immediately prior to the state health and commonwealth determined hotspot engaged in paid employment and is unable to attend work and therefore unable to earn an income as a result of state health restrictions.

You’ll be aware that we already have a pandemic leave payment for people who are required to isolate for a 14 day period.

And they could be because they are a close contact, testing or any other number of reasons determined by the state government.

The person self declares that they would normally have worked in the relevant period.

The person self declares a loss of income for the relevant period.

The person will not be required to use annual leave but must have sufficient, must have insufficient other appropriate leave entitlements, including special pandemic sick leave, and have exhausted those entitlements.

So you don’t have to get into your annual leave but if your employer is already providing your lease for these types of purposes than it is reasonable that people would use those in these circumstances.

The person self declares that they have liquid assets of less than $10,000.