Department of Education, Skills and Employment - Notice of a data matching program
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment will acquire data from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to support administration of the Supporting Apprentices and Trainees (SAT) program.
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 117,000 apprentices and trainees and more than 70,000 employers.
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 the Supporting Apprentices and Trainees wage subsidy;
- validate information provided by the employer claiming the Supporting Apprentices and Trainees wage subsidy; and
- confirm that employers are not claiming both the Supporting Apprentices and Trainees wage subsidy and JobKeeper Payment at the same time in respect of 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 |