COVID-19 Disaster Payment – Victoria – Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District

The Covid-19 Disaster Payment provides support for those who could not work due to Victoria’s 16 July to 27 July COVID-19 public health orders. If you lost work income during the July 2021 COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria, you may be eligible for COVID-19 Disaster Payment. The period of restricted movement has been lifted. However, you may still be able to get this payment if you were eligible on one day during this period.

To get the payment, you need to meet all eligibility rules that apply

This includes all of these rules:

you’re an Australian resident or hold a visa that gives you the right to work in Australia
you’re 17 years or older
you didn’t get an income support payment, ABSTUDY Living Allowance, Dad and Partner Pay or Parental Leave Pay during the payment period.
you didn’t get the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment, a state or territory pandemic payment or a state small business payment for the same period
you lost income and didn’t have any appropriate paid leave entitlements.

You may not need to use your leave before claiming COVID-19 Disaster Payment

We won’t consider your annual leave balance when we assess your eligibility for COVID-19 Disaster Payment. But if you decide to take annual leave, you will not have lost income and therefore won’t be eligible for this payment.

You’re also not required to take any of these types of leave before claiming:

unpaid leave
paid sick and carer’s leave
long service leave
compassionate leave when your employer has stood you down without pay.

You also need to have met these rules between 16 and 27 July 2021:

you lived in, worked from or visited a Commonwealth-declared COVID-19 hotspot that is subject to a state restricted movement order, or
you lived in or worked from other areas of Victoria
you were unable to earn your usual income of 8 hours or more or a full day’s work because you were in the COVID-19 hotspot and were subject to restricted movement, or
you lived or worked from other areas of Victoria.

Services Australia YouTube channel has 2 new videos about COVID-19 Disaster Payment. The videos, available only in English, provide clear and simple messaging about how people can claim online and prove their identity.

How to claim the COVID-19 Disaster Payment

For people who have lost income due to a stay at home order, this video explains how people can claim using their myGov account

How to prove your identity using myGov

This video is about how people can prove their identity to claim the COVID-19 Disaster Payment online.

Reminder: we have 4 myGov task cards available in 12 languages:

Creating a myGov account

Link a service using a linking code

Link a service without an online account

Link a service using an existing online account.

These and all other translated information products are available on the Information in your language web page.

State Government Victoria

	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District acknowledges the Yorta Yorta People of the land which comprises the Goulburn Valley. We pay respect to tribal Elders, past, present and emerging and we celebrate their continuing culture and acknowledge the memory of their ancestors.
	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District is a peak body whose mission is to promote and represent the social, cultural and economic well-being of ethnic communities in the Goulburn Valley Region through the provision of quality and innovative settlement, refugee support, community development, and information and advocacy services.