Department of Education, Skills and Employment - Notice of a data matching program - 2021
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment will match data with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to support administration of the Supporting Apprentices and Trainees (SAT), Boosting Apprenticeship Commencements (BAC) and the Australian Apprentice Wage Subsidy (AAWS) measures.
This data will include information about businesses currently employing apprentices, as well as information about apprentices contained in the Training and Youth Internet Management System (TYIMS) and SmartForms completed by employers.
It is estimated the data matching will capture records that relate to around 180,000 apprentices and trainees and 90,000 employers for SAT, 270,000 apprentices and trainees for BAC and 3,300 apprentices for AAWS.
The records will be electronically matched with ATO data holdings. The objectives of the data matching program are to:
- confirm that the employer is eligible to receive SAT, BAC or AAWS;
- validate information provided by the employer claiming SAT, BAC or AAWS; and
- confirm that employers claiming either SAT, BAC or AAWS have not concurrently claimed and received (if payment data is available) the JobKeeper Payment or the JobMaker Hiring Credit with respect to the same employee.
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment complies with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s Guidelines on data matching in Australian government administration (2014) which includes standards for data matching to protect the privacy of individuals. A full copy of the Department’s privacy policy can be accessed at www.dese.gov.au/privacy |