Program · Outcome 1: Support the financial wellbeing and self-sufficiency of people when they cannot fully support themselves, by providing targeted payments and assistance through the social security system, and disability employment services
Program 1.3 – Support for Seniors
To assist eligible senior Australians financially and to encourage them to use their financial resources to support their retirement income.
Department of Social Services, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 50 reported
$68.7bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$3.4bn (+5.2%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 | administered | $65.3bn | $68.7bn | +$3.4bn +5.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1194 |