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 1.7 – Student Payments
To support eligible students whilst they undertake education and training, so that they can gain employment. To increase access and participation by Indigenous Australian students in secondary and tertiary education and accelerate their educational outcomes.
Department of Social Services, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 53 reported
$3.1bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$10m (−0.3%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 | administered | $2.6bn | $2.6bn | −$1.9m −0.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1200 |
| Student Assistance Act 1973 | administered | $507m | $499m | −$8.3m −1.6% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1201 |