COVID TAB

The COVID TAB, on your Service’s Main screen, holds all the COVID 19 CCS payments. These payments started Apr 6th 2020 and will continue (if eligible) until June 28 2020. They are not being reported in any of SmartCentral’s payment reports or MYOB extract. You will need to add these amounts to your accounting package.

COVID 19 - MYOB Adjustments (& other accounting packages) required

CCS Payments made:

  • Wk 1 wasn’t rounded.
  • Wk 2: Rounding started and if eligible you would have received a double payment. The double payment was for wk 2, plus the week ending June 28th, paid in advance.
  • wk 3: Is your regular payment (unless you have received a larger than expected sum early May 2020 - see below)

Larger than expected COVID CCS Payments

Around about the 6th May 2020 some services received a larger than expected CCS payment. In some cases the amount was more than 4 times their regular amount. Then 8th May 2020 a smaller, but still larger than regular CCS payment, was received.

We have asked CCS for some information regarding these payments. And the following was their reply.

Job keeper is not paid through CCS and therefore these sums are not job keeper payments.

CCS have asked The Dept of Education for formal communications on this matter. They are aware of a decision to broaden and, in some cases, to increase or back pay payments. CCS are not sure what communications have been supplied to the sector in relation to these payments and particularly to the Independent schools component of the sector.

We hope to have some clearer communications from Education/CCS in the next 48 hours and will add it here if it is relevant.

Bottom line: if a Service is concerned about the amount they have received (lower/higher than expected) they should contact the Education CCS Helpdesk.