Private employment services forced to pay back $1m in wrongfully-claimed bonuses in 2020

Exclusive: FoI documents reveal more than 5,000 government payments for placing clients into jobs or education have been recouped since 2015

The federal government clawed back more than $1m in wrongful claims made by privatised employment services providers last year, freedom of information documents reveal.

Under the jobactive and ParentsNext programs, which are designed to get jobseekers into work and prepare parents for employment respectively, outsourced providers claim “outcome payments” for placing their clients into jobs or education courses.

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