Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The package of measures that we announced before the JobKeeper program was for the jobseeker program. The jobseeker program ensured that through the jobseeker supplement—the COVID supplement—we were doubling the level of jobseeker support to Australians who found themselves in a situation where they were no longer in work. Those arrangements were the first layer we put down to ensure that our social security network was strengthened and expanded to ensure that it could capture more and more Australians who found themselves the victims of the economic crisis that has hit Australia as a result of the coronavirus. In addition, people who are eligible for those payments don't just receive the jobseeker payment and the supplement for the coronavirus. They are also able to get access to a range of other social security supports, whether that be rental assistance or the Family Tax Benefit part B and A and a range of other measures that can support people through these situations. Now, it would be a mistake—

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