{"id":10241,"date":"2021-02-12T19:08:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10241"},"modified":"2021-02-12T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:08:28","slug":"supporting-victoria-through-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/12\/supporting-victoria-through-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Victoria through COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government will lift mutual obligation requirements for job seekers in Victoria from today 12 February 2021 to Monday 22 February 2021inclusive.<br \/>\nThis follows an announcement by the Victorian Government that the state of Victoria is under a five-day lockdown as a short, sharp circuit breaker to curb a COVID-19 outbreak in the state.<br \/>\nNo job seeker in the affected areas will face payment suspension or financial penalties for failing to meet their mutual obligation requirements such as not being able to attend appointments or activities.<br \/>\nJob seekers are still being encouraged to remain connected to employment services to ensure they are supported to access the full range of assistance including mental health services, if required.<br \/>\nThese arrangements will apply to job seekers in jobactive, Online Employment Services, Disability Employment Services and participants in ParentsNext.<br \/>\nThe Morrison Government will continue to closely monitor the situation in Victoria.<br \/>\nMore information about mutual obligations requirements can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dese.gov.au\/covid-19\/job-seekers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.dese.gov.au\/covid-19\/job-seekers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government will lift mutual obligation requirements for job seekers in Victoria from today 12 February 2021 to Monday 22 February 2021inclusive. This follows an announcement by the Victorian Government that the state of Victoria is under a five-day lockdown as a short, sharp circuit breaker to curb a COVID-19 outbreak in the state. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/12\/supporting-victoria-through-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supporting Victoria through COVID-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}