Income Management Summary

28 July 2017

Tables

  1. Number of people on income management by measure and state
  2. Number of people on income management by gender and state
  3. Number of people on income management by indigenous status and state
  4. Current income management customers with an active BasicsCard by income management measure
  5. Current income management customers with an active BasicsCard by state
  6. Number of approved BasicsCard merchants by state

Notes:

  1. Any variance from data reported prior to 28 August 2015 is due to a change in reporting method for the Income Management programme to conform to the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). The data represents the current residential address of income managed customers within designated statistical area(s). Any inconsistencies from data reported previously can be attributed to the fact that customers may have moved from the location at which they were originally triggered to the programme.
  2. To prevent customers from being identified, numbers below 5, or numbers that would identify groups of less than 5, are not provided (n/p).
  3. It is optional for customers to identify themselves as ‘Indigenous’. This may impact on the completeness of the data and should be considered in any application or use of this information.
  4. Customers in an ‘unknown state’ are customers who have no address recorded for them. This represents customers that have been suspended or cancelled as ‘whereabouts unknown’.
  5. Figures in Table 6: Number of approved BasicsCard merchants by state, are actual store location, for example, Coles and Woolworths will be counted several times, not once.

Table 1: Number of people on income management by measure and state as at 28 July 2017
Measure / Location
NT / WA / QLD / SA / VIC / NSW / ACT/TAS/Unknown / Total
Disengaged Youth Measure / 4167 / 21 / 40 / 26 / 5 / 10 / 15 / 4284
Long Term Welfare Payment Recipient Measure / 14193 / 68 / 99 / 80 / 19 / 14 / 35 / 14508
Voluntary Income Management / 2852 / 916 / 142 / 245 / 104 / 16 / 6 / 4281
Child Protection Measure / n/p / 129 / 5 / 22 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 206
Vulnerable Welfare Payment Recipient Measure / 137 / 10 / 18 / n/p / 6 / 18 / 5 / 197
Vulnerable Welfare Payment Recipient Measure- Youth / 296 / 22 / 681 / 272 / 68 / 90 / 8 / 1437
Cape York / 5 / 0 / n/p / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 164
Supporting People at Risk Measure / 247 / 9 / 5 / n/p / 0 / 0 / 5 / 269
Total / 21948 / 1175 / 1145 / 660 / 202 / 148 / 68 / 25346
Table 2: Number of people on income management by gender and state as at 28 July2017
Measure / Location
NT / WA / QLD / SA / VIC / NSW / ACT/TAS/Unknown / Total
Female / 12542 / 791 / 589 / 383 / 104 / 74 / 35 / 14518
Male / 9406 / 384 / 556 / 277 / 98 / 74 / 33 / 10828
Total / 21948 / 1175 / 1145 / 660 / 202 / 148 / 68 / 25346
Table 3: Number of people on income management by indigenous status and state as at 28 July 2017
Measure / Location
NT / WA / QLD / SA / VIC / NSW / ACT/TAS/Unknown / Total
Indigenous / 18366 / 769 / 451 / 306 / 40 / 25 / 47 / 20004
Non-Indigenous / 3582 / 406 / 694 / 354 / 162 / 123 / 21 / 5342
Total / 21948 / 1175 / 1145 / 660 / 202 / 148 / 68 / 25346
Table 4: Current Income Management Customers with an active BasicsCard by Measure as at 28 July 2017
Total Customers with an active Income Management Status & BasicsCard / 24400
Active BasicsCard Customers - Cape York / 155
Active BasicsCard Customers - Child Protection / 202
Active BasicsCard Customers - Voluntary Income Management / 4158
Active BasicsCard Customers - Compulsory Income Management (includes Long Term Welfare Payment Recipient Measure and Disengaged Youth Measure) / 18146
Active BasicsCard Customers - Vulnerable / 1472
Active BasicsCard Customers - Supporting People at Risk / 267
Table 5: Current Income Management Customers with an active BasicsCard by State as at 28 July 2017
Total Customers with an active Income Management Status & BasicsCard / 24400
Active Income Management Status & BasicsCard– NT / 21295
Active Income Management Status & BasicsCard– WA / 1129
Active Income Management Status & BasicsCard– QLD / 1036
Active Income Management Status & BasicsCard– SA / 604
Active Income Management Status & BasicsCard– VIC / 185
Active Income Management Status & BasicsCard - ACT/NSW/TAS/Unknown / 151
Table 6: Number of Approved BasicsCards Merchants by State as at 28 July 2017
NT / WA / QLD / SA / VIC / NSW / ACT / TAS / Total
Merchants Approved / 1059 / 1879 / 3604 / 1324 / 3169 / 3907 / 200 / 359 / 15501