Program · Outcome 3: Facilitate jobs growth, including secure work, through policies and programs that promote fair, productive and safe workplaces
Program 3.2: Workers' Compensation Payments
This program contributes to the outcome by managing the Comcare Workers’ Compensation Scheme.
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 56 reported
$59m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$9.0m (−13.3%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asbestos-related Claims Act 2005 | administered | $38m | $30m | −$7.8m −20.9% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 463 |
| Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 | administered | $24m | $23m | −$1.5m −6.0% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 464 |
| Payments to corporate entities - Comcare | administered | $6.0m | $6.3m | +$285k +4.7% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 462 |