Our Freedom of Information disclosure log
About the disclosure log
The Freedom of Information (FOI) disclosure log below sets out the documents released in response to prior FOI requests made to our department.
You can request any of the documents described below by sending an email to FOI@dss.gov.au. Make sure you include the reference number so we can help you.
- The overall government funding for the Y4Y Youth Force Programme
- The breakdown of where that funding is going: how much is going to White Lion and how much is going to any employer partners
- If Deliveroo is in receipt of any government funding as part of the programme
- If there are any other employers in the task or “gig economy” which are participating and if so how much funding they are in receipt of
- How the overall spend is broken down: how much on training, equipment such as bicycles, etc
- How long the training lasts and what participants specifically get trained on
- How many participants have so far been taken on in the programme and from which cities
- How many participants have worked with Deliveroo so far
- How long participants stayed working with Deliveroo (on average)
- What their average hourly earnings were while working with Deliveroo
- A breakdown of any allowances, superannuation or other benefits participants received while working with Deliveroo
- An explanation of what insurance (to cover personal injury and workers compensation) they have while working with Deliveroo
- Any feedback or assessments which have been carried out on participants working for Deliveroo.
“…all documents held by the Department - other than documents already in the public domain - about the likely cost to providers of implementing the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Scheme.”
[Item 1] Procurement plans, work orders and inventory documents relating to the purchase of laptops for the department for the 2017-18 financial year.
[Item 2] Signed/Agreed support plans or Service Level Agreements with the vendors relating to Item 1
[Item 3] Options/advice papers provided to senior DSS executive about the purchase
Documents showing the amounts paid by salary and/or any additional payments/stipends/consultancy fees etc for each member of the Commission’s Independent Advisory Council on Redress.
Ministerial briefing documents, excluding drafts, prepared between 01 January 2015 and 23 November 2015 by the Department of Social Services with respect to: the abolition of belief-based exemptions, (both religious and conscientious); and, the narrowing of medical contraindication exemptions in Commonwealth legislation
A document showing:
The number of current age pensioners whose payment is determined under the asset test and who have an assessable amount for curtilage adjacent to their principal home on their record at 31 December 2017.
The number of age pensioners who have had their payment cancelled due to the application of the assets tests and at the time of cancellation had an assessable amount for curtilage on their record between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2017.
All documents on the file titled ‘briefing on the outcome of the Whole of Government Debt Strategy Review in September 2017 (EF17/35266)’
[Item 1] A copy of the summary checklist required for submission of requirements under the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS).
Documents in the last twelve months on the demand for the Carer Adjustment Payment and the granting of such assistance.
[Item 1] A copy of the impact assessment carried out by DSS and Business Information Services into the breach of DSS employee information identified in October, 2017 by Australian Signals Directorate.
All documents which relate to the decision of the Department of Social Services not to send a representative to the conference convened by AbilitySeer
All reports given to the Attorney-General, Attorney-General’s Department or Office of Legal Services Coordination regarding compliance with the Legal Services Directions, including but not limited to annual compliance certificates, for the period 1 July 2015 to present.
The gift register for the Department of Social Services for the previous five years.
Excluding staff names, contact details and signatures.
Correspondence between the OAIC and the Department of Social Services pertaining to the exposure of DSS staffs' personal information by contractor Business Information Services.
Item 1: A previous FOI request confirmed over 40 people are exempt from the cashless welfare card. What are the following demographics of those with current exemptions:
- Indigenous / Non Indigenous status
- Age
- Sex
- Payment type
- Housing status
Item 2: With over 40 people being granted exemption from the cashless welfare card trials, I would like to request the procedural guidelines for assessing this exemption.
Item 3: Please provide the procedure or guidelines used when assessing how rent assistance is paid to those who are subjected to the cashless welfare card, if rent assistance does form part of the 80/20 split please also provide evidence of rent assistance being included as a restrict-able payment within the allowing legislation or instrument.
The number of DV incident reports made available to Orima Research for their evaluation of the Cashless Debit Card Trials
National Rental Affordability Scheme documents relating to properties at 56, 58, 60, 62 1and 64 Church street Armadale (Strata Lots 5 to 1)
How many people currently reside in a postcode declared via instrument to be a trial area for the purposes of the cashless welfare card trails, collect a restrictable declared payment yet are not subjected to the welfare card.
Documents such as reports, ministerial/ executive briefings and attachments, Senate Estimates briefings, internal correspondence involving the Department Secretary such as emails, since 1 January 2017, relating to drug testing of welfare recipients.
- FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 17 [PDF 639.99 KB]
- FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 18 [PDF 567.59 KB]
- FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 19 [PDF 717.48 KB]
- FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 20 [PDF 568.62 KB]
- FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 21 [PDF 710.58 KB]
- FOI Request No. 17/18-019 Document 22 [PDF 616.04 KB]
The total cost of the cashless debit card trials in Ceduna and the East Kimberley from the beginning until 31 August 2017 and the total projected cost of the rollout of the cashless debit card in Bundaberg and Hervey Bay and the Goldfields.