COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Payment

Important: Please note this article relates to previous COVID wage subsidy periods. For information on the August 2021 lockdown, please see this announcement: COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Payment: August 2021

For details around the wage subsidy scheme itself, please see the MBIE and Work & Income websites for official information:

MBIE - COVID-19: Information for Businesses

Work and Income - COVID-19 Employer Support 

PayHero - Processing the Wage Subsidy Payment 

Every PayHero company now has two new earnings pay items for the COVID-19 Wage Subsidy (Part-Time & Full-Time).

For details on using these pay items, please see our support article: COVID-19 Wage Subsidy.

Any new information we receive on payroll practices during this time, will be published as an announcement on our support centre. To receive an email notification, please click the 'Follow' button in the top right of our support centre here: PayHero - Announcements.