Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The reality is that people who received JobKeeper knew of their obligations. Welfare recipients in particular had an obligation to report JobKeeper as ordinary income. Because the question went to the importance of JobKeeper and the payments under JobKeeper, let me remind the House what the Governor of the Reserve Bank said:

… the JobKeeper program is really about keeping people in jobs … It's done a remarkably good job at that.

We know from the Reserve Bank that at least 700,000 jobs have been saved by JobKeeper.

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