Rebate for professional cleaning costs for COVID-19 affected VIC small and medium-sized businesses

The COVIDSafe Deep Cleaning Rebate provides small and medium-sized businesses with a rebate to help offset the costs of hiring professional cleaning services to conduct a decontamination clean.

Overview

This program supports small and medium-sized businesses by reimbursing the cost of professional decontamination cleaning services carried out following the notification of a COVID-19 case at a workplace.

The purpose of this support is to reduce or limit instances of workplace transmission of COVID-19 and to limit out of pocket cleaning expenses for eligible businesses.

What are the eligibility criteria?

To be eligible, a business must:

• operate from a COVID-19 affected worksite in Victoria
• attest to having a suspected or confirmed onsite COVID-19 case
• have undertaken a deep clean in accordance with government cleaning guidelines
• have evidence of the expenditure incurred for the cost of the decontamination cleaning
• have a valid Australian business number (ABN)
• have an annual payroll of less than $3 million in 2019–20 on an ungrouped basis
• be registered with WorkSafe if employing people
• be registered as a trading business.

How do you apply?

Find out more about eligibility and how to apply at COVIDSafe Deep Cleaning Rebate.