Increasing Workforce Participation

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Increasing Workforce Participation

• 3.6 billion over four years
• Better incentives for working age Australians to
  move from welfare to work
• New and expanded services
• Targeted initiatives to increase job
  opportunities for priority groups
• - Very long-term unemployed
• - Parents
• - People with a disability
• - Mature age (50 )

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Assistance for very long-term unemployed job
seekers From 1 July 2006
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VLTU Business Model
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Who will be eligible?

• Those who
• are in receipt of an eligible allowance, and
• have completed ISca2

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A current profile of VLTU job seekers
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A current profile of VLTU job seekers cont.
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Assistance available

From 1 July 2006 360 million will be available
over 4 years for the very long-term
unemployed to

• Provide more opportunities to find work
• Increase participation and engagement if avoiding
  work

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Type of assistance

• JNMs will conduct a review of the job seekers
  circumstances following ISca 2
• This review will determine which way the job
  seeker is streamed

- Comprehensive Work Capacity Assessments
(CWCAs) - Full time Work for the Dole - Wage
Assist - Ongoing Job Network
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Comprehensive Work Capacity Assessments

• Triggered by completing a Change of Circumstances
  through the JSCI
• Conducted by Work Capacity Assessors
• Determines
• - medical impairment
• - work capacity
• - intervention needs
• - referral options for job seekers

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Comprehensive Work Capacity Assessments cont.
To ensure sufficient referral options are
available additional places have been created in

• Disability Open Employment Services
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Personal Support Programme

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Full-time Work for the Dole

• For job seekers assessed as not demonstrating a
  genuine commitment to their job search
• 25 hours of work experience activities per week
  for 10 months
• 16,500 VLTU WfD places per year for three years
  and 10,000 each year thereafter

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Full-time Work for the Dole cont.

• Intensive Support bi-monthly contacts
• Retain access to the JSKA
• Access to a Training credit of up to 800
• Job seekers may be precluded from income support
  payments for up to 8 weeks for not attending full
  time Work for the Dole projects without a valid
  reason

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Wage Assist

• 15,000 places available over three years
• Wage subsidies for full-time work placements
• A minimum of 13 and maximum of 26 weeks
  employment
• Up to 4,600 may be paid through the JSKA for
  each Wage Assist place

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Wage Assist cont.

• For job seekers who have demonstrated a genuine
  commitment to their job search
• For JNMs
• IS Outcomes fees are available
• Retain access to the JSKA
• Intensive Support bi-monthly contacts and post
  placement support

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Ongoing Job Network

• Intensive Support bi-monthly contacts
• Allowing for referrals to complementary
  programmes and CWCAs at any time where
  appropriate
• Retain access to JSKA
• Attract substantial IS Outcomes fees

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Questions?