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Human Services Budget

Human Services Budget at a glance

Human Services has a number of measures announced as part of the 2006-07 Federal Budget. These comprise measures brought forward by the Minister for Human Services as well as measures brought forward by other Ministers which Human Services agencies will play an important role in implementing.

The key themes of the measures brought forward by the Minister for Human Services, Better Compliance and Better Service, specifically target health and welfare fraud and compliance, and improvements to the delivery of services to customers by Human Services agencies.

Human Services measures

Better Compliance

• What the Government is doing to keep the system fair
  • Media release (43k)
  • Supporting information (17k)
• Fraud and Compliance - Improving Cross Agency Activities
• Fraud and Compliance - Enhanced Focus on Serious Social Security Fraud
• Fraud and Compliance - Increasing Medicare Compliance through Education
• Fraud and Compliance - Address Risks in Payments to Income Recipients who Reside Abroad
• Fraud and Compliance - Addressing Undeclared Unearned Income
• Fraud and Compliance – Investigate the Use of Data Mining as a Predictive and Risk Identification Method - Pilot
• Fraud and Compliance - Pilot Programme - Address Undeclared Business Income and Assets

Better Service

• Centrelink – Call Centre Supplementation
  • Media release (17k)
  • Supporting information (16k)
• Child Support Reforms – Building a Better Child Support Agency
• Financial Services Sector – Reducing Red Tape
• Health and Social Services Access Card - Introduction
  • Media release
  • Pensioner, family, emergency relief and fraud case studies
  • Fact sheet - Technology
  • Fact sheet - Financial Case
  • Fact sheet - International experience
  • Access Card at a Glance
• Medicare Easyclaim – Continue Funding
• Strengthening Indigenous Communities - Remote Area Servicing - Continue and Expand Funding
  • Media release (37k)
  • Supporting information (17k)

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