A senior cabinet minister tells companies who profited from JobKeeper to do some 'soul-searching' on repaying what they were given, as the government continues to refuse forced repayments.
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews wants profitable companies that pocketed JobKeeper payments to "do a bit of soul-searching" about repaying the money.The Home Affairs Minister said companies should consider repaying JobKeeper if they did not need itThe opposition says "wasted" JobKeeper money could have been spent on support for those in lockdownat the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The wage subsidy payments were intended to help businesses with turnover declining by at least 30 per cent compared to the same period pre-pandemic.pocketed hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars because there was no legal requirement to repay the money if their revenue projections were wrong. The federal government has defended profitable businesses keeping the money. But Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews this morning said they should consider repaying it.
"I think there's actually a responsibility on many of those businesses now. If they are doing well, they need to do a bit of soul-searching," she told ABC Radio Gold Coast.
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