As advised by the government – please see the most recent update regarding
support if you can’t earn an income because you or someone you are caring for must
self-isolate or quarantine due to COVID-19.
Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment is a lump sum payment to help you during the
time you can’t work and earn income because you have to:

• self-isolate or quarantine due to COVID-19
• you’re caring for someone who has to self-isolate or quarantine due to
  COVID-19.

You have to self-isolate or quarantine for one of the following reasons:

• • you have coronavirus (COVID-19), for isolation periods starting before 10
    January 2022, you must have been directly informed you have COVID-19 by
    a health official
  • you’re informed by a health official that you’re a close contact with a person
    who has COVID-19
  • you care for a child, 16 years or under, who has COVID-19
  • you’re informed by a health official that a child you care for who is 16 years or

under, is a close contact with a person who has COVID-19

• you’re caring for someone who has COVID-19
• you’re caring for someone with disability or a severe medical condition who
  must self-isolate or quarantine because they’re a close contact of a person
  with COVID-19.

From Monday 10 January 2022, we’ll accept both Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) results. You’ll need to have either:

• advice of a positive test from a testing clinic or health professional
• evidence you’ve registered a positive result from a home-administered RAT
  with your state health authority.

Full update and further information located here:
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/pandemic-leave-disaster-payment-westernaustrali