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Speaker 1: Job mission with join Z and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: These floods in New South Wales are horrific, They're scary,

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Speaker 2: and they're widespread. For those of you who are affected,

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Speaker 2: there are so many. The federal government has now introduced

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Speaker 2: a disaster relief payment to help. General Manager for Services

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Speaker 2: Australia Hank Johngon, joins us now to tell us morning,

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Speaker 2: to tell us more. Hello, Hank, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm really good, thank you, and it's good to have

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Speaker 1: you back on again.

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Speaker 2: Hank. You talked to us through getting our vaccine passports.

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Speaker 1: Remember that last time? Oh? Look, I certainly do. And

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Speaker 1: I remember how skeptical you were about my goove. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and today we're going to be talking about my goove

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Speaker 1: again because it is going to be the quickest way

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Speaker 1: to claim all of these payments. The good news is

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Speaker 1: most people are now familiar with my GOV know how

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Speaker 1: to work their way around it.

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Speaker 2: So what payments are available? What money has been released?

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Speaker 1: Okay, look, the first payment is the disaster recovery payment.

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Speaker 1: Now let me say with both these payments, you need

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Speaker 1: to be in local government areas that have been declared

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Speaker 1: and those areas, of course are changing all the time.

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Speaker 1: Check out our website to make sure you're in the

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Speaker 1: declared area.

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Speaker 2: Declared is a disaster area?

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 2: What do you mean by declared?

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Speaker 1: Sorry? Yes, absolutely so. The Disaster Recovery payment is a

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Speaker 1: one off payment of one thousand dollars for adults four

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars chill for each child. And it's the if

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Speaker 1: your home has been severely damaged or if you've been injured.

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Speaker 1: And as I said, that's a one off payment. The

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Speaker 1: other payment is the Disaster Recovery Allowance. Now, this is

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Speaker 1: for people regardless of whether you're a business owner or

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Speaker 1: farmer or an employee of any of those. If you've

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Speaker 1: lost income and you're unable to work as a direct

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Speaker 1: result of the floods, you can claim the allowance. It's

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Speaker 1: paid at the equivalent of job seeker payment and we

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Speaker 1: pay it for a period of up to thirteen weeks.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And so how do people go about accessing this?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Look, the first, the quickest and easiest way is

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Speaker 1: through my goove. People are now familiar with it. Go

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Speaker 1: to my dot cup dot au. The service you're linking

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Speaker 1: with this time, however, is center Link. You click on

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Speaker 1: center Link, you'll find a Bunton claimer payment and you

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Speaker 1: follow the prompts. If you're feeling a bit insecure about that,

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Speaker 1: go to Services Australia dot GUV dot AU slash disaster.

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Speaker 1: There's a how to claim guide there. Now, that's the

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Speaker 1: quickest way so far. We've paid about two hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty seven thousand people and ninety five percent of claim

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Speaker 1: in that way. But you've got other options, because we

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Speaker 1: know this is not for everyone. You can call us

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Speaker 1: on one eighth zero double two double six one eight

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Speaker 1: zero double two double six that line. You can actually

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Speaker 1: large a claim over the phone by simply talking to us,

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Speaker 1: and don't let the fact that you haven't got ID

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Speaker 1: put you off claiming. We're being very flexible in terms

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Speaker 1: of making sure that we get money into people's hands.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we've also got staff at emergency and recovery centers.

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Speaker 1: You can talk to them there and larger claim and

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Speaker 1: a lot of our officers are still open. You can

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Speaker 1: also go to one of our officers and you can

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Speaker 1: lodge a claim there. Well, good on you, Hank. That

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Speaker 1: sounds pretty easy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll put all of these details on our

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Speaker 2: socials throughout the day. But I think that's that's pretty great.

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Speaker 2: So one off of one thousand for adults and four

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Speaker 2: hundred for kids, and then also those claims if you're

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Speaker 2: if you've lost money through employment ORF you're running a

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Speaker 2: bit and just go to Services Australia dot gov dot

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Speaker 2: AU or that number one zero double two, double sick. Hank.

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Speaker 2: That's great, thank you for helping us.

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Speaker 1: No problems. I look the other thing just quickly. People

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Speaker 1: are focused on cleaning up now. Not everyone wants the

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Speaker 1: money immediately. We understand that you've got up to six

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Speaker 1: months to claim. If your priority is cleaning out right

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Speaker 1: now and you want the money a bit later to

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Speaker 1: buy some new equipment and stuff, you've got six months.

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Speaker 2: Great, thank you, thank you so much, Hank, good work.

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Speaker 1: Your pleasure. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda's gamination