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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced financial support for struggling businesses and workers during the lockdown in New South Wales.

He said there will be extensions made to existing payments.

“What we have decided to do to go forward into week four is that those payments will be increased to $600 for those who have lost more than 20 hours (of work), and increase to $375 for those who have lost between eight and 20 hours a week,” Mr Morrison said.

He said the four local government areas which first went into lockdown will be able to access these from Friday and will need to reapply, after which they will be a recurring payment.

He said as a result of the government’s “partnership” with NSW, the payment will not only be made available to the Greater Sydney area, but also to NSW “state-wide”.

Further, he said direct payments will be made to businesses of up to a “turnover of $50 million a year”.