Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for wage Assistance:
The job must be:
- paid under an Award or a Certified Agreement, and
- on-going, that is the employer knows of no reason why the vacancy canot continue indefinitely
- a full-time job of 35 hours per week, or the full-time hours specified in the Award or Agreement, or
- a part-time job of at least 15 hours per week, and
- not receiving wage subsidy funding from any other government program (please see the guidelines for exceptions).
The employee must be:
- An unemployed Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, and
- If 21 years of age or over, receiving an eligible income support payment, or
- Participating in a CDEP project (the job must be outside of CDEP grant funding), or
- If under 21 years and not in receipt of income support, registered with Centrelink or a Job Network member as looking for work.