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JobKeeper payments for prisoners, the dead and other fraud cases probed by ATO – ABC News
Dodgy employers have signed up jailed criminals, people living outside Australia and the dead to receive $1,500-a-fortnight JobKeeper payments — and are now being…
Dodgy employers have signed up jailed criminals, people living outside Australia and even the dead to receive $1,500-a-fortnight JobKeeper payments.
Key points:
- Employers claiming JobKeeper on behalf of fictitious employees are being pursued by an ATO investigation
- “Client is in jail” is a category under scrutiny where people may have taken advantage of the $130 billion scheme
- FOI documents show the ATO was investigating 5,974 cases of “inflated employees” as at September
These fictitious employees…
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