Unemployed to repay $32m dole as businesses rort JobKeeper

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The hypocrisy of the Morrison Government on ‘mutual obligations’ is on display again, with over 11,000 welfare recipients sent letters saying they owe money because they were overpaid a combined $32 million due to the JobKeeper scheme.

The letters have been sent despite the federal government resisting calls for it to recoup money from companies that received JobKeeper payments but then went on to post profits, such as Harvey Norman:

Greens senator Rachel Siewert… said the data revealed a double standard between individuals receiving income support and businesses who claimed the wage subsidy.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.