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Australian Government Cashless Debit Card Program

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Created 18/12/2019

Updated 13/11/2024

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Updated data for the Australian Government’s Cashless Debit Card (CDC) program will be available on the third Thursday of every month. The data summary will include:

Table 1. Number of CDC participants by original CDC location, Income Support Payment and if a participant has identified as an Indigenous Australian.

Table 2. Community panel (or body) decisions to change the restricted portion of welfare payment.

Table 3. When someone is not subject to cashless welfare arrangements: Well-being exemptions.

Table 4. When someone is not subject to cashless welfare arrangements: Exits.

The data provided will be the last weekly data update for the previous month.

Legislation

Legislation for the CDC is located here in the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.

Information about the CDC

More information about the CDC is located here on the Department of Social Services (the department) web site.

Locations and commencement dates

Information on where the CDC program has been implemented is located here in Section 124PD of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.

Location: Ceduna region, South Australia Commencement date: 15 March 2016

Includes: Ceduna, Koonibba, Scotdesco, Yalata and Oak Valley Cohort: All people on a working age income support payment

Location: East Kimberley region, Western Australia

Commencement date: 26 April 2016

Includes: Kununurra and Wyndham Cohort: All people on a working age income support payment 2

Location: Goldfields region, Western Australia Commencement date: 26 March 2018

Includes: Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Coolgardie, Laverton, Leinster, Leonora, Menzies and Kookynie.

Cohort: All people on a working age income support payment

Location: Bundaberg and Hervey Bay region, Queensland

Commencement date: 21 September 2018

Includes: Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Aldershot, Bargara, Elliott Heads, Woodgate, Booyal, Burrum Heads, Torbanlea, Toogoom, Howard, Childers, Burnett Heads and River Heads.

Cohort: All people aged 35 years and under who receive Newstart Allowance, Youth Allowance (Job seeker), Parenting Payment (Single) or Parenting Payment (Partnered).

Data Confidentialisation Policy Table cells are suppressed where the count refers to less than five, but more than zero, people.

The method is:

  • Cells with counts between one (1) and four (4) are presented as <5.
  • Cells with a count of zero (0) are not suppressed.
  • Where suppression has been applied and it is still possible to derive the cell value from other information in the table, the total/s or the next lowest aggregate cells are suppressed and presented with ‘n.p.’ (not provided).

Data caveats If a person is on the CDC program and moves out of a CDC area they remain on the program and continue to be reported against their original CDC community.

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Title Australian Government Cashless Debit Card Program
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/e5a6ca38-b17c-4e65-af70-84e7759a0ffa
Contact Point
Department of Social Services
cdc.im.data@dss.gov.au
Reference Period 31/12/2019
Geospatial Coverage GA1
Data Portal data.gov.au