Photo / 123RFOPINION:The Government's wage subsidy scheme may have incorrectly paid out billions of dollars to ineligible businesses, and this is not being audited. Finance Minister Grant Robertson during his announcement over the wage subsidy scheme extension on August 17, 2020. Previous questions about wage subsidy auditingThe Government and MSD have been claiming for a long time that "auditing" was taking place into recipients of the wage subsidy. Finally, the Auditor Generally has recommended a bigger review of the successes and failures of the wage subsidy scheme. For a must-read view on this topic, see Bernard Hickey's article from March: Where did the wage subsidy money really go?.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 12, 2021 06:26 UTC