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 1.8 – Disability Employment Services
To support people with disabilities, injury or health conditions to prepare for, find and maintain work.
Department of Social Services, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 54 reported
$1.3bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$79m (−5.7%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $1.4bn | $1.3bn | −$79m −5.7% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1202 |