Thread by @RachelMSiewert

Just heard from the Department that over 100,000 people have dropped out of the #Jobactive program. They are not tracked and the Department “assumes” they have gone into employment 🤔🤔🤔

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45 minutes in #Estimates is not enough time to ask about #Jobactive, an employment programs which cost over $7billion & affects hundreds of thousands of Australians

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#Estimates has revealed that 104,480 people on the #Jobactive program have not re-engaged with their job provider after having their payment cancelled.

The department is not tracking these people and they do not know their circumstances, they assume they are employed?

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Almost half of the people who have not re-engaged are under 30yrs old.

11 849 are First Nations peoples, 13,720 are homeless and 13, 720 are disabled people.

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As I predicated, again and again, the demerit point system or targeted compliance framework (TCF) is impacting on the most vulnerable in our community who maybe going without income support because of this draconian system.
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This is coupled with the fact that 43% of people on the #jobactive program have been found not capable by their capability assessment and 64% of those people had errors in their job plan.

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This system is failing. Why can’t providers get a job plan together that meets individual needs, they are receiving billions of dollars in Government funding.

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People shouldn’t be ending up getting assessed as not capable & receiving multiple payment suspensions. It's not good enough.

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