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Sydneysiders who lose work in lockdown will be able to claim $600 a week from the federal government under beefed up support as the city braces for an extended shut down.
Currently the pandemic disaster payment is $500 for anyone who loses more than 20 hours of work.
Daily Mail Australia understands the $325 rate for people who lose fewer than 20 hours will also increase.
Sydney recorded 112 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday, most of them in the city's south-west.
Shoppers make a purchase at a local fish market along Chapel Road in Bankstown in western Sydney as lockdown entered its fourteenth day
Residents in nine suburbs have been warned they hold the key to getting the city out of lockdown as authorities pile pressure on Sydney's west to follow strict stay-at-home orders.
Ms Berejiklian on Monday said she needed to 'call out' the Fairfield local government area - where health officials found the vast majority of the 112 local coronavirus cases recorded overnight.
'I need to call that out,' she said. 'Everybody in Fairfield should be staying at home unless they absolutely have to.'
Of those new locally-acquired cases, 48 are unlinked to known infections and 34 were out in the community for at least part of the time they were infectious.
