NATIONAL NEWS: The Finance Minister Grant Robertson updates on the COVID-19 wage subsidy

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The Finance Minister says the names of those Businesses accepting the Covid-19 compensation subsidy will be discharged publically.

Grant Robertson said he needed to get notification from any workers whose business had gotten the appropriation, however, was not passing on everything. All employees must receive 80% of their Wages Under this Wage Subsidy Scheme released by the government.

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So far $2.7 billion in wage subsidies had been paid out, Robertson said.

“The progressions they we are declaring today take the potential expense from between $8 billion and $12 billion. Plainly that will change contingent upon what number of organizations take it up. It’s a not a top and it is anything but a story, it’s simply a gauge.”

Robertson said most owners who had taken up the plan had made the right choice, however, there were a couple of who had not.

He said the mortgage scheme was likewise in progress and individuals could apply to their banks from today.

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Source - NZ Fiji Times
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