Government Funding Available

Government Funding Information – For Prescribed Occupations

http://www.csq.org.au/funding-support/workers/post-trade-training-funding/prescribed-occupations

Construction Skills Queensland provides reimbursement to individuals and employers against some of the costs of training and assessment associated with acquiring a licence. The program includes prescribed occupations (such as plant operations and rigging/ dogging) as well as relevant competencies towards plumbing, electrical trades and plastic welding.

COURSES COVERED

ELIGILIBILTY

HOW TO APPLY 

Applicants must meet the following funding eligibility criteria: 

• The applicant must me working full time or part time in or genuinely seeking work in the Qld Building and Construction industry and must meet the residency criteria below; AND
• The applicant must not be an employee of a Local, State or Commonwealth government department or statutory body; AND
• The applicant must have undertaken a qualification or course as outlined by Construction Skills Qld to be funded under this program
• The training and/or assessment must have been delivered by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO); AND
• The RTO must not be funded by Construction Skills Qld or any other entity for the delivery of the training and/or assessment for which a reimbursement is being sought.

Applicants must meet the following residency criteria.

 Australian or New Zealand Residential Criteria, applicants must: 

• Be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or
• Have permanent Australian Residency visa, or
• Hold a Temporary Protection Visa; or
• Hold a visa sub class 309 or 820, or
• Hold a business skills (Provisional) visa sub class 457; or
• Hold a Skilled Independent Regional (SIR) visa sub class 495. 

Evidence of this must be supplied in the form of a copy of your Australian or New Zealand birth certificate, passport, visa, or citizenship certificate or a copy of your temporary visa detailing the type sub class. 

*** Please Note that all prescribed occupations paid and completed on or after 1 July 2010 and on or before 31 January 2011 attracts a reimbursement of up to a maximum of $500.00 on completion. 

*** In response to disaster conditions, funding has been increased up to a maximum of $1000.00 for all prescribed occupations paid and completed on or after 1 February 2011 and on or before 31 March 2012. 

Only 1 Licence from the prescribed occupations qualifications list will be available for reimbursement per person per financial year....