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The JobKeeper program ended on 28 March 2021
If you had employees being paid under JobKeeper right up to the end of the scheme, there's nothing you need to do in MYOB Essentials (you don't need to select a Final Fortnight for those employees).
For key dates and actions for employers, see the ATO website.
If you're looking to set up JobKeeper, see COVID-19 wage subsidy (JobKeeper) payments - MYOB Essentials on how to get started.
If you've already set up JobKeeper, there are a few things you need to check to make sure you receive your wage subsidy payments from the government.
You'll need to complete these checks before 8 May to ensure April JobKeeper payments were correct.
We recommend you use the checklist below to get started:
- Check that you've notified the ATO of correct JobKeeper start dates
- Check JobKeeper pay item setup
- Check JobKeeper payments are correct
Let's step you through it:
When you first set up JobKeeper, you would've notified the ATO of the JobKeeper start dates for each eligible employee.
We recommend you check that the correct start date has been recorded for each employee.
Here's how:
- Go to the Payroll menu and choose Payroll Reporting.
Click the JobKeeper payments tab.
- Select all eligible employees.
Check that you've chosen the correct First JobKeeper fortnight for each employee based on their first eligible JobKeeper payment date.
If your pay date falls within Choose this First JobKeeper fortnight 30/03/2020 - 12/04/2020 JOBKEEPER-START-FN01 13/04/2020 - 26/04/2020 JOBKEEPER-START-FN02 27/04/2020 - 10/05/2020 JOBKEEPER-START-FN03 
Click Notify the ATO.
Enter the name of the Authorised sender then click Send.
You only need one pay item for all JobKeeper top-up payments for all eligible employees that are needing a top up.
The Name and ATO reporting category you use for the JobKeeper pay item must be set up as shown below in order to receive the wage subsidy payment from the government.
The JobKeeper Name must be exactly: JOBKEEPER-TOPUP
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To check your JOBKEEPER-TOPUP pay item setup:
- Go to the Payroll menu and choose Pay items.
- Click the ellipsis button for the pay item you've used to pay JobKeeper payments and choose Edit.
- If the JobKeeper top-up payment option is selected, there's nothing you need to do. Your pay item setup will be correct and you can skip to task 3 "Check payment amounts" below.
- If the JobKeeper top-up payment option is not selected:
- Check the Name is entered exactly as: JOBKEEPER-TOPUP (all capitals, with a hyphen and no spaces).
Check that the ATO Reporting Category is set to Allowance - Other.
Make sure the highlighted areas of the pay item are set up exactly as they are below:
Click Save.
If your pay item wasn't set up like this and you had to fix it, you'll need to do a $0 pay to update each employee you've previously paid using this pay item.
Complete these steps only if you changed the details in the JobKeeper topup pay item. Recording a $0 pay ensures the correct pay item details are sent to the ATO.
- Start a pay as you normally do. Need a refresher?
- For the Pay on date, choose 30/04/2020.
- For each employee you've paid under JobKeeper, remove all hours and amounts to ensure the net pay is zero.
Complete the pay as you normally would. When prompted to declare, enter the name of the authorised sender and click Send.
To ensure you've paid the minimum amount required for JobKeeper ($1500 per fortnight before tax) for each employee, you can check the amounts employees have been paid through the Payroll summary & details report.
FAQs
You should only use the JOBKEEPER-TOPUP pay item for payments to employees who earn less than $1500 per fortnight (before tax) or who have been stood down.
If you've set up additional JobKeeper pay items and used these to pay employees, you'll need to:
- Run the Pay item transactions report to check which pay items you've used.
- Delete the pays that have used the wrong pay items.
- Ensure you've set up JobKeeper correctly.
- Reprocess the deleted pays making sure you only use the JOBKEEPER-TOPUP pay item where applicable.
The Name for the pay item cannot be anything other than JOBKEEPER-TOPUP. Otherwise the ATO will not recognise it as a JobKeeper payment and therefore you won't receive the wage subsidy payment from the government.
Unfortunately, no. The ATO will not recognise it as a JobKeeper payment and therefore you won't receive the wage subsidy payment from the government.
The Name for the pay item cannot be anything other than JOBKEEPER-TOPUP.