Funding for small businesses impacted by south-east QLD rainfall and flooding

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 stock, including associated costs
• repairs to buildings (other than housing)
• reconditioning/repairing essential plant and equipment
• 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 $15,000 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 $35,000 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 small business owner
• hold an Australian business number (ABN) and have held that ABN at the time of the disaster
• own a small business located in the defined disaster area for the eligible disaster that has suffered direct damage as a result of the eligible disaster
• have been engaged in carrying on the small business when affected by the eligible disaster
• be primarily responsible for meeting the costs claimed in the application
• intend to re-establish the small business in the same area.