Fair Entitlements Guarantee: Quarterly and Biannual Claims and Expenditure Data

Fair Entitlements Guarantee data tracks a government safety net for employees of bankrupt businesses. The dataset includes quarterly counts of claims and cases received and paid, plus biannual breakdowns by jurisdiction, industry, and entitlement expenditure from July 2022. It is published by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and updated quarterly and biannually in arrears.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in employee claims following business insolvencies based on quarterly claims and cases data.
• Compare FEG uptake across different industries based on the biannual claims-by-industry breakdown.
• Model government expenditure on employee entitlements based on the biannual total expenditure by entitlements paid.
• Assess regional differences in program utilization based on the biannual claims-by-jurisdiction data.

Strengths

• Data is structured with both quarterly and biannual update frequencies.
• Biannual data provides breakdowns by jurisdiction and industry, available from July 2022.
• Published under a CC-BY-2.5 license, permitting reuse with attribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and reporting bias inherent to the government administrative source.

Provenance

Source

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Australia.

Collection Method

Administrative data from the Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme.

Time Range

Biannual data available from July 2022; quarterly data time range is unspecified.

Freshness

Updated quarterly and biannually in arrears; last metadata update was 2026-04-28.

Geography

Australia, with jurisdiction breakdown likely referring to Australian states and territories.