Earlier changes

What's new

1 April 2025

Annual General Adjustment

Rates and thresholds increased on 1 April 2025 by the Annual General Adjustment have been updated in deskfile and elsewhere in Map.

Minimum wage

The adult minimum wage, starting-out minimum wage, and training minimum wage increased on 1 April 2025. See:

Legislation

The following ministerial directions have been updated, effective from 1 April 2025:

These are also available in a hard-copy (PDF) format. See ministerial directions.

The following welfare programmes have been updated, effective from 1 April 2025:

These are also available in a hard-copy (PDF) format. See welfare programmes

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31 March 2025

$5k to Work and Relocate for Work Support

$5k to Work ceased at 11.59pm on 30 March 2025, and applications for this assistance will no longer be accepted. "In flight" applications can be completed till close of business on 30 April 2025. The $5k to Work pages have been updated to reflect this.

Relocate for Work Support has replaced $5k to Work from 31 March 2025. Relocate for Work Support is designed to support qualifying clients to relocate from where they currently live to take up a suitable and sustainable job offer in a new location. It has a tighter qualification than $5k to Work, with a flat-rate payment structure that determines what clients may be entitled to get based on their family circumstances, method of transport, and whether they need to move their possessions.

See:

Legislation

The following welfare programme has been added, effective from 31 March 2025:

The following welfare programme has been updated, effective from 31 March 2025:

Both of these are also available in a hard-copy (PDF) format. See welfare programmes.

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