Statistics for Recipients of DSP, NSA & JobSeeker
Dear Services Australia,
If possible, please treat this as an informal or administrative request. Otherwise, please treat this as a formal request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
The 2017-18 Budget detailed welfare reform and advised seven working age payments and allowances were to be consolidate and that from 20 March 2020 Newstart Allowance was to be renamed JobSeeker and other welfare recipients would also be transferred to the JobSeeker payment providing the rules for working age income support payments.
I am requesting documents from the Services Australia that show the following statistics:
1. The annual number of DSP recipients from 2019
2. The annual number of NSA recipients from 2019
3. The annual number of NSA recipients - who have a disability - from 2019.
4. The annual number of JobSeeker recipients from 2020
5. The annual number of JobSeeker recipients - who have a disability - from 2020
Yours faithfully,
Julie Middleton
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Good afternoon Ms Middleton,
Thank you for your email regarding statistics held by Services Australia.
It appears the information you seek is publicly available, I have provided
a link to the page that holds data relevant to the information you seek.
Once on the page, you can export the data to an excel spreadsheet, the
spreadsheet breaks down the total number of recipients by payment type,
there is a tab called "Partial Capacity to Work" that will show you the
figures that may satisfy the second part of your request.
[1]https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-cff2a...
Please review the link provided and kindly advise by COB 21 April 2023 if
this satisfies what you are seeking and you agree to withdraw your FOI
request. If it does not, you will need to provide us with information
about the specific data/documents you are seeking that is not publicly
available.
Thank you.
Kind regards
Claire Stewart
FOI Practitioner
Freedom of Information Team
Freedom of Information and Ombudsman Branch
LEGAL SERVICES DIVISION
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I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands we live on. I pay my
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to all Elders, past and present, of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander nations.
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Good afternoon Ms Middleton,
I am writing regarding the email below sent to you on 19 April 2023, in
which we provided you with publicly available data related to your
request.
We have not received a response from you by the requested date of 21 April
2023. If we do not hear from you by close of business 1 May 2023, we will
assume that you no longer wish to proceed with an FOI request.
Kind regards
Claire Stewart
FOI Practitioner
Freedom of Information Team
Freedom of Information and Ombudsman Branch
LEGAL SERVICES DIVISION
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I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands we live on. I pay my
respects
to all Elders, past and present, of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander nations.
LGBTI+ ALLY!
From: FREEDOMOFINFORMATION
<[2][Services Australia request email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2023 3:32 PM
To: '[FOI #10163 email]'
<[3][FOI #10163 email]>
Cc: FREEDOMOFINFORMATION
<[4][Services Australia request email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Statistics for Recipients of
DSP, NSA & JobSeeker (LEX 73037) [SEC=OFFICIAL]
Good afternoon Ms Middleton,
Thank you for your email regarding statistics held by Services Australia.
It appears the information you seek is publicly available, I have provided
a link to the page that holds data relevant to the information you seek.
Once on the page, you can export the data to an excel spreadsheet, the
spreadsheet breaks down the total number of recipients by payment type,
there is a tab called "Partial Capacity to Work" that will show you the
figures that may satisfy the second part of your request.
[5]https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-cff2a...
Please review the link provided and kindly advise by COB 21 April 2023 if
this satisfies what you are seeking and you agree to withdraw your FOI
request. If it does not, you will need to provide us with information
about the specific data/documents you are seeking that is not publicly
available.
Thank you.
Kind regards
Claire Stewart
FOI Practitioner
Freedom of Information Team
Freedom of Information and Ombudsman Branch
LEGAL SERVICES DIVISION
[6]cid:image003.jpg@01D6B8DA.4DF87C40
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands we live on. I pay my
respects
to all Elders, past and present, of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander nations.
LGBTI+ ALLY!