JobSeeker Payment Recipients — methodology
Category: Equality & Inclusion · Unit: persons · Published monthly
What this metric measures
Total number of Australians receiving JobSeeker Payment (formerly Newstart Allowance), the primary working-age income support payment.
Why it matters: Tracks the number of working-age Australians relying on income support. Reflects labour market conditions and welfare system demand.
Source & provenance
- Publisher
- DSS Income Support Recipients Monthly Ti
- Update frequency
- monthly
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
How the score is computed
This metric is in a category that is tracked but does not contribute to the National Snapshot Index.
See related corrections at /corrections, or the live data and chart at https://www.australiametrics.org/metric/jobseeker-recipients.