JobSeeker Payment Recipients — methodology
Category: Society & Education · 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
The score is a 0–100 normalisation of the latest observation, compared to a baseline window. The traffic-light rating (RAG) reflects both the absolute level and the recent trend.
- Direction
- Lower is better
- Trend window
- 60 months
- Baseline
- Last 10 years
Thresholds:
{
"red_min_pct_of_baseline": 110,
"amber_max_pct_of_baseline": 110,
"green_max_pct_of_baseline": 95
}See related corrections at /corrections, or the live data and chart at https://www.australiametrics.org/metric/jobseeker-recipients.