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Employer Support Payment Scheme (ESPS)

Defence funding, offered by Australian Government.

Closing date

Ongoing intake

Applications are accepted continuously and the funder publishes no closing date. Ongoing programs do get paused or closed without notice, so this one is re-read nightly.

Funding
Not stated
Weekly payments equal to average adult earnings.
Where
Australia (Commonwealth)Commonwealth of Australia
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Who can apply

Australian Government does not publish a structured list of eligible applicant types for this program, so this page does not show one. The eligibility criteria in the guidelines on the official page are the ones that count.

Eligibility, in Australian Government's own words

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What Employer Support Payment Scheme (ESPS) funds

What this money is forDefence

The Employer Support Payment Scheme provides businesses who employ a Reservist or a self-employed Reservist with payments when the Reservist is absent from their civilian workplace on eligible periods of Defence service. If you're an employer of a reservist, or a self-employed reservist, you can get ESPS payments when the reservist is away on eligible periods of defence service. For full-time employees, ESPS weekly payments are the same as average weekly full-time adult ordinary time earnings (AWOTE).

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How to apply

Applications are made through

Australian Government

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About Employer Support Payment Scheme (ESPS)

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When does Employer Support Payment Scheme (ESPS) close?

Australian Government accepts applications on an ongoing basis and publishes no closing date. Ongoing rounds do get paused and closed without much notice, so this listing is re-read every night and the alert list is told the day it changes.

How much funding is available through Employer Support Payment Scheme (ESPS)?

Australian Government does not publish a funding amount for this program, so this page does not show one. The figure, where there is one, is in the guidelines Australian Government publishes on their own page, which this record names and carries the link to.

Who can apply for Employer Support Payment Scheme (ESPS)?

Australian Government does not publish a structured list of eligible applicant types. The eligibility criteria Australian Government publishes in their own guidelines are the ones that count, and this record carries the link to them.

Is Employer Support Payment Scheme (ESPS) still open?

It was open now when we last read Australian Government's own page, on 24 Oct 2026. Every source is re-read nightly and this page carries the date of the last read.

Who runs Employer Support Payment Scheme (ESPS), and does GrantWindow take a cut?

Employer Support Payment Scheme (ESPS) is offered by Australian Government in Commonwealth of Australia. Applications are made through the funder, never through GrantWindow: we take no applications, charge no fee and act as no intermediary. Any site offering to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.

Where this record came from

Sourced from business.gov.au, © Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Industry, Science and Resources), used under CC BY 3.0 AU (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/).

  1. Read frombusiness.gov.aubusiness.gov.au Grants and Programs finderThe address of Australian Government's own listing for this program is one of the two facts a trial opens.
  2. Published underCC BY 3.0 AUCC BY 3.0 AU
  3. Last checked24 Oct 2026The day we last read this program on the funder's own page.

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