Occasional Paper 7
Income support customers: A statistical overview 2001
March 2003This paper provides:
- simple explanations of income support payments (including payment descriptions, eligibility criteria and historical details)
- relevant figures for each payment (including number of recipients, recipient characteristics, rates and duration of benefit) presented in tables to compare results over time and across states.
- payments for older people, the sick, or people with disabilities and their carers
- labour market allowances and parenting program
- family assistance
- other income support payments
- expenditure and pensioners paid overseas.
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