Factcheck: are Coalition claims Labor’s pandemic policies would have cost an extra $81bn accurate?

Labor last year proposed a $6bn Covid-19 vaccine incentive scheme, which would have offered $300 payments to Australians who received two doses of the jab. Photograph: Albert Perez/AAP

The Morrison government has argued that Labor cannot be trusted to manage the federal budget.

Scott Morrison and the finance minister, Simon Birmingham, have both claimed Labor’s pandemic policies would have cost an extra $81bn since 2020.