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Australian Government Department of Employment Your Ref Our Ref EMSQ16−000142 EMSQ16−000142 Group Manager Activation and Work for the Dole Group Marsha Milliken Committee Secretary Senate Standing Committees on Education and Employment PO Box 6100 Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Dear Committee Secretary Request to correct response to question on notice EMSQ16−000142 The Department of Employment is seeking to correct its response to question on notice EMSQ16−000142.

The question asked "a.


For 30 June (or most appropriate date) please provide a table showing the percentage fully eligible job seekers who exited the Job Services Australia (JSA) caseload, by stream, after achieving a 26 week employment outcome and have returned to the caseload 26 weeks after the outcome was claimed.

(Refer to DEEWR Question No.

EW0634_13 (SQ12−001077)).


For 30 June (or most appropriate date) please provide a table showing the percentage fully eligible job seekers who exited the Job Services Australia (JSA) caseload, by stream, after achieving a 13 week employment outcome and have returned to the caseload 13 weeks after the outcome was claimed.

Using the latest available information, what percentage of job seekers who are placed in employment by a JSA provider are off welfare 13 weeks after their employment start date?
What percentage of job seekers who are placed in employment by a JSA provider are off welfare 26 weeks after their employment start date?"

Original Response The department provided the following response.

GPO Box 9880, Canberra ACT 2601 I Phone 1300 488 064 I www.employment.gov.au I ABN 542 012 184 74 Job Service Australia data as provided in response to EMSQ15−000402 remains unchanged for questions one and two.
45 per cent of job seekers were off income support three months after a having a job placement recorded by their jobactive provider during the period 1 July 2015 to 31 October 2015.

There is insufficient data available to report on the income support status of job seekers 26 weeks after a job placement has been recorded by their jobactive provider.

Description of correction The department has identified one figure in the above response that needs to be replaced.
That is the figure for the proportion of job seekers who were off income support three months after having a job placement recorded by their jobactive provider.

The incorrect figure resulted from a typing error.

Corrected response The department seeks to correct its response to read: Job Services Australia data as provided in response to EMSQ15−000402 remains unchanged for questions one and two.
35 per cent of job seekers were off income support three months after a having a job placement recorded by their jobactive provider during the period 1 July 2015 to 31 October 2015.

There is insufficient data available to report on the income support status of job seekers 26 weeks after a job placement has been recorded by their jobactive provider.

The department would like to apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.

Yours sincerely Marsha Milliken 29 April 2016