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When the pandemic hit in March and Melbourne went into lockdown, Melis Layik lost all three of her casual jobs.
Luckily for the law and global studies student, she was among 339,000 Australian recipients of the Youth Allowance who got a special $550 fortnightly coronavirus supplement. Another 1.3 million Australians on JobSeeker got the $550 supplement too.
Student Melis Layik lost three casual jobs when the pandemic hit.
Credit:Paul Jeffers
But the fourth-year Monash University student said since then little had changed for her in the employment market.
"I haven’t really seen much of anything come up," said the 21-year-old, who until March worked for two medical companies, helping with training for medical students, and as an English tutor. She is still looking for work.