What is a Fully Eligible job seeker?
Fully Eligible job seekers are eligible for stream services (with eligibility for a particular stream dependent on their level of disadvantage as determined by the Job Seeker Classification Instrument (JSCI) or, where required, a Job Capacity Assessment (JCA) (see below for more information). Fully Eligible job seekers are: • recipients of Newstart Allowance or Youth Allowance (other), including parents and people with disability who have part-time participation requirements • recipients of another form of qualifying government income support, such as Disability Support Pension or Parenting Payment (Partnered or Single), who volunteer • young people (those who are aged 15 to 20 years, not employed for more than 15 hours a week or in full-time education and not in receipt of income support) • vulnerable young people who are full-time students (those who are aged 15 to 20 years who present in crisis and have at least one serious non-vocational barrier)—they are only eligible for stream 4
