Government support for SMEs is gone sooner than you think

Australia’s JobKeeper programme has paid out $70 billion to more than 900,000 business supporting more than 3.5 million jobs in the six months to the end of September. It is a remarkable programme that helped bring Australian unemployment down from 15% to its current level of 7.4%. JobKeeper is soon being phased out The government's JobKeeper largesse is not infinite. JobKeeper payments are sched…