Building Australia's
Future Workforce:
trained up and
ready for work
Participation through rewards, opportunities and responsibilities
Improving incentives in the tax system
- Increasing the amount of the Low Income Tax Offset (LITO) in people's take home pay from week to week means more immediate and direct returns to work for over 6.5 million taxpayers who receive the LITO
- Phasing out the Dependent Spouse Tax Offset for people aged under 40 to improve participation incentives
Investing so more young Australians are earning or learning
- Increasing Family Tax Benefit Part A (at a cost of $772 million) to support the families of around 650,000 children over the next five years to stay in full‑time school or training
- Extending the 'Earn or Learn' requirements and eligibility for Youth Allowance (other) to unemployed youth aged 21, and increasing their rewards to work
- Providing $68 million for improved support services for young Australians
Rewarding and supporting single parents to engage in work
- Introducing a more generous income test for single parents on Newstart Allowance with school‑age children, which better supports part‑time work for 50,000 recipients
- Providing additional training, career advice and parenting support
- Making Parenting Payment eligibility more equitable
Supporting very long‑term job seekers
- Offering incentives for employers that provide new opportunities for around 35,000 very long‑term unemployed people
- Introducing stronger participation requirements in activities to provide skills and experience to find work
More opportunities for people with disability
- Fast‑tracking strengthened Disability Support Pension (DSP) assessment processes
- Introducing appropriate participation requirements for around 90,000 DSP recipients under 35 with some work capacity
- Allowing DSP recipients to work more hours and remain on DSP
- Providing 3,000 additional wage subsidies for people with disability
A new approach to addressing entrenched disadvantage in targeted locations
- Introducing new participation plans and support services for teenage parents in 10 locations with a view to an Australia‑wide rollout
- Introducing new participation requirements and supports for jobless families in 10 locations
- Extending income management to five additional locations to address the needs of people in disadvantaged areas
- Building integrated service delivery and trialling innovative ways to help disadvantaged locations through the Local Solutions Fund
