Support if you can't earn an income because you or someone you’re caring for has to self-isolate or quarantine due to COVID-19.

Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment is a lump sum payment to help you during the time you can’t work and earn income because you have to:

• self-isolate or quarantine due to COVID-19
• you’re caring for someone who has to self-isolate or quarantine due to COVID-19.

You have to self-isolate or quarantine for one of the following reasons:

• you have coronavirus (COVID-19), for isolation periods starting before 10 January 2022, you must have been directly informed you have COVID-19 by a health official
• you’re informed by a health official that you’re a close contact with a person who has COVID-19
• you care for a child, 16 years or under, who has COVID-19
• you’re informed by a health official that a child you care for who is 16 years or under, is a close contact with a person who has COVID-19
• you’re caring for someone who has COVID-19
• you’re caring for someone with disability or a severe medical condition who must self-isolate or quarantine because they’re a close contact of a person with COVID-19.

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