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FED:Employment services overhaul after litany of complaints

People on welfare payments who get support to find a job will be funnelled into three distinct streams under reforms aimed at making Australia's beleaguered employment services system fairer.

More than one million Australians - many of them on programs such as JobSeeker - are required to see privately owned employment services providers under a $2 billion-a-year scheme aimed at getting more people into paid work.

But the system has been plagued with claims of unfair suspensions from support payments.

Workplace Minister Amanda Rishworth will outline a three-tiered system for people who are dealing with Workforce Australia as they try to find a job.

She says the move will be a big change from the current approach where all job seekers are triaged in the same way.

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