Funding for QLD primary producers impacted by rainfall and flooding 10 November to 3 December 2021
Special Disaster Grant – Central Southern and Western QLD Rainfall and Flooding (Primary Producers)Last Updated: 16 December 2022
Special Disaster Grant – Central Southern and Western QLD Rainfall and Flooding (Primary Producers)
Closing date: Friday 17 March 2023 Fri 17 Mar 2023
What do you get?
Funding of up to $50,000.
Who is this for?
Queensland primary producers affected by rainfall and flooding in central, southern and western Queensland, 10 November to 3 December 2021.
Overview
Eligible clean-up, reinstatement activities and emergency measures include:
- equipment and materials to undertake clean-up
- additional labour costs (above and beyond normal wage expenditure, i.e. day-to-day staffing)
- disposing of damaged goods and injured or dead livestock, including associated costs
- repairs to buildings (other than housing)
- fencing not covered by any other assistance
- reconditioning/repairing essential plant and equipment
- salvaging crops, grain and feeds
- purchase or hire/lease costs for equipment essential to the immediate resumption of the business
- payment for tradespeople to conduct safety inspections
- essential repairs to premises and internal fittings that is not covered by insurance.
The maximum grant amount is $50,000 and is available through 2 applications:
- An initial amount of up to $10,000 is available to support an initial claim. Evidence of the direct damage such as photographs, quotations, tax invoices and official receipts is required.
- A subsequent amount of up to $40,000 is available to support subsequent claims for which full evidence of payment is required.
Check if you can apply
To be eligible, you must:
- be a Queensland primary producer
- hold an Australian business number (ABN) and have held that ABN at the time of the disaster
- have a primary production enterprise located in one of the defined disaster areas:
- Banana Shire Council
- Bundaberg Regional Council
- Goondiwindi Regional Council
- Lockyer Valley Regional Council
- Scenic Rim Regional Council
- Somerset Regional Council
- South Burnett Regional Council
- Southern Downs Regional Council
- Toowoomba Regional Council
- Western Downs Regional Council
- have been engaged in carrying on the primary production enterprise when affected by the natural disaster.
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