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
Outcome 1
No description yet. Read the Department of Social Services Portfolio Budget Statements for this program’s objective.
$168m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$24m (−12.3%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
AusTender and GrantConnect record the agency, not the program, so contracts and grants are shown on the entity page.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $146m | $134m | −$11m −7.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1204 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $44m | $30m | −$14m −31.9% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1206 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $2.3m | $4.0m | +$1.7m +75.7% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1205 |