Industry Support Grants

In order to receive financial assistance from the COVID-19 CPV Industry Assistance Support Grants, Booking Service Providers (BSPs) are required to complete and submit paperwork to the Department of Transport (DoT).

Victorian medium and small BSPs must complete a Survey Application, and large BSPs (eg 13cabs, Silver Top Taxis and Uber) are required to complete a Funding Agreement. The grants are to cover financial hardship due to COVID-19 for the quarter July - October. --> SURVEY LINK <--
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Yet, the DoT is dragging the chain in paying entities which have completed the required Funding Agreement. It has been over 10 weeks since the grants were announced, with only two weeks remaining before the period of assistance has expired.

It appears that we are still no closer to seeing monies for the Depot Fee subsidy, the Cleaning and Sanitisation grant or the Regional support fund. Not one entity has seen any money from the DoT since the grants were announced.

This is truly pathetic and unacceptable!

We understand that the DoT may be still working out the algorithms to calculate how much every applicant will be receiving, but why was this not done at the outset? Why is it taking so long to give the eligible recipients their deserved assistance?
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Perhaps the new Minister for Transport, Ben Carroll will take a greater interest in this industry and prescribe people at the DoT to get moving on this.

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