NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet is promising 99 per cent of businesses struggling with Sydney's extended lockdown will be able to get up to $100,000 a week from the government.
The state and federal governments on Wednesday expanded the JobSaver program after non-essential retailers, dine-in restaurants, pubs and nightclubs were banned from trading until at least August 28.
This saw the maximum weekly payment increased from $10,000 to $100,000, with grants starting at $1,500 a week.
Businesses can claim the payments, based on 40 per cent of a seven-day payroll bill, on the proviso staff are not retrenched.
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NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet (pictured with Premier Gladys Berejiklian) is promising 99 per cent of Sydney businesses struggling with the extended lockdown will be able to get up to $100,000 from the government
To qualify, businesses with a turnover of between $75,000 and $250million must prove they have experienced a 30 per cent or more decline in revenue.
Mr Perrottet, the state Liberal Party's deputy leader, said almost every business in New South Wales would qualify for some help from the government.
'Now in New South Wales, every single business - 99 per cent of businesses will be able to access some form of payment,' he told 2GB broadcaster Ben Fordham on Thursday.
'The substantive increase to that JobSaver program in conjunction with the Commonwealth will provide businesses up to $100,000 per week, which will help them obviously with their fixed costs, their overall costs.'
Before Wednesday's announcement, Mr Perrottet had unsuccessfully joined Labor and the trade unions in calling for a revival of JobKeeper wage subsidies.
'JobKeeper has proven to be successful in keeping businesses in business, and
