funding for disability employment media release

TITLE: Helping more Australians with intellectual disability find work [14/05/2013]

PORTFOLIO: Treasury

URL: http://mfss.treasurer.gov.au/DisplayDocs.aspx?doc=pressreleases/2013/036.htm&pageID=003&min=brs&Year=&DocType=0

SNIPPET: More than 700 Australians with intellectual disability can get more help to find and keep a job in open employment with an extra $5.5 million from the Australian Government. The payments we announce today are a practical way of ensuring that disability employment services providers have the incentives and the extra support they need to help more Australians with intellectual disability find work and make their valuable and unique contribution to our economy and our community. The Supporting Australians with an Intellectual Disability program provides Disability Employment Service providers with an additional 88 per cent loading on Job Placement and Outcome Fees when they place a job seeker with moderate intellectual disability in employment above their assessed minimum hours per week for 13 weeks, and another fee for a placement of longer than 26 weeks.