The community employment (CE) programme is targeted at the long-term unemployed. CE is a very popular programme and limited resources do not make it possible to provide places for all unemployed persons. Therefore, it is essential to target the programme at those most in need, namely the long-term unemployed over 25 years.
Currently, persons in receipt of unemployment assistance, unemployment benefit, one parent family payment, widow's and widower's pension and persons classified as qualified adults of long-term unemployed persons, are eligible to participate in CE in their own right. In order to satisfy the eligibility criteria, persons with children who are in receipt of deserted wives benefit, DWB, can apply to transfer to OPFP in order to become eligible to participate in CE. DWB recipients without children are not eligible to participate in the programme.