{"id":13267,"date":"2021-10-07T06:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13267"},"modified":"2021-10-07T06:46:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:46:44","slug":"new-hardship-panel-to-provide-more-businesses-with-covid-19-financial-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/new-hardship-panel-to-provide-more-businesses-with-covid-19-financial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hardship Panel To Provide More Businesses With Covid-19 Financial Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Hardship Review Panel has been established to consider financial support for businesses experiencing financial hardship that do not qualify for COVID-19 business support measures.
\nThe panel will assess on a case-by-case basis businesses which did not meet the eligibility requirements for the 2021 COVID-19 Business Grant, Micro-business Grant and JobSaver payments.
\nMinister for Finance and Small Business Damien Tudehope said the Review Panel would help those businesses experiencing genuine financial hardship that were previously ineligible for support payments and grants.
\n\u201cCOVID-19 has affected so many businesses in NSW and even though we have a number of support measures in place, there are still some businesses under severe financial strain that aren\u2019t eligible for assistance for a number of reasons. We want to plug that gap as much as we can,\u201d Mr Tudehope said.
\nThe Review Panel will include representatives from Revenue NSW, NSW Treasury and Service NSW and will make recommendations on businesses\u2019 eligibility for relevant support payments and grants.
\nIt will consider a broad range of factors in determining whether a business has experienced financial hardship, with the Chief Commissioner of Revenue NSW to be ultimately responsible and make the final determination for applications.
\n\u201cMy message to small businesses is this \u2013 no matter what corner of the state you’re in, we will be there with you all the way as we navigate this global health pandemic,\u201d Mr Tudehope said.
\nFactors that the hardship panel will consider include, for example, whether the business is an employer, in a highly impacted industry, in an LGA of concern or has unavoidable costs for which no other support is available.
\nBusinesses will be back paid to the fortnight where they can demonstrate the required decline in turnover with the Panel. Hardship applications for JobSaver are now open with hardship COVID business grants and Microbusiness grants to open later this month. See more here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.service.nsw.gov.au\/campaign\/covid-19-help-businesses\/covid-19-business-support-hardship-review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new Hardship Review Panel has been established to consider financial support for businesses experiencing financial hardship that do not qualify for COVID-19 business support measures. The panel will assess on a case-by-case basis businesses which did not meet the eligibility requirements for the 2021 COVID-19 Business Grant, Micro-business Grant and JobSaver payments. Minister for … Continue reading “New Hardship Panel To Provide More Businesses With Covid-19 Financial Support”<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267","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=13267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}