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 1.6 – Working Age Payments
To provide financial assistance to people while they are unable to fully support themselves through work.
Department of Social Services, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 52 reported
$27.1bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$1.0bn (+4.0%) 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 | $26.1bn | $27.1bn | +$1.0bn +4.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1199 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $3.0m | $1.8m | −$1.2m −41.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1198 |