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Sickness BenefitSimilarly during April 2012, 54.6% of young people receiving a sickness benefit requiredfinancial support for psychological/psychiatric reasons while 11.2% required support as theresult of a pregnancy. Accidents (8.0%), substance abuse (6.2%) and musculoskeletalproblems (4.4%) also made a significant contribution (Figure 26).Midland Region Distribution and TrendsNumber of Young People Reliant on BenefitsAs information on benefit recipients was not able to be mapped by domicile code, it wasnot possible to provide information on the number of young people resident in the MidlandRegions’ DHBs who were reliant on benefits during 2007–2012. Information was availablehowever, on the number of young people receiving benefits from service centres in, oradjacent to, Midland DHBs’ boundaries (although the lack of a clearly defined denominatorprecluded the calculation of rates).In most of the DHBs in the Midland Region, the number of young people aged 16–24 yearsreceiving a benefit increased between April 2007 and April 2011, with the most rapidincreases occurring during 2009 and 2010. The numbers reliant on a benefit then fellslightly in most DHBs in April 2012. While the DPB was the most common benefit receivedin all DHBs, large increases were evident in unemployment benefit uptake between April2008 and April 2011 (Table 10).Table 9. Number of Young People Aged 16–24 Years Receiving a Benefit by Benefit Type,for Service Centres in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty DHB Catchments, April 2007–2012YearDPB Unemployment Sickness Invalid's Other Benefits TotalNo. %* No. %* No. %* No. %* No. %* No.Waikato2007 1,846 43.3 707 16.6 572 13.4 712 16.7 425 10.0 4,2622008 1,908 45.2 489 11.6 681 16.1 767 18.2 380 9.0 4,2252009 2,105 37.6 1,315 23.5 788 14.1 738 13.2 654 11.7 5,6002010 2,329 36.4 1,712 26.8 899 14.0 760 11.9 699 10.9 6,3992011 2,427 39.3 1,375 22.3 916 14.9 771 12.5 679 11.0 6,1682012 2,403 39.4 1,304 21.4 920 15.1 788 12.9 689 11.3 6,104Bay of Plenty2007 992 53.8 75 4.1 312 16.9 278 15.1 186 10.1 1,8432008 988 53.4 66 3.6 310 16.8 295 16.0 190 10.3 1,8492009 1,161 46.9 369 14.9 389 15.7 311 12.6 245 9.9 2,4752010 1,222 42.8 503 17.6 498 17.5 347 12.2 282 9.9 2,8522011 1,286 45.0 408 14.3 547 19.2 320 11.2 295 10.3 2,8562012 1,251 43.2 519 17.9 510 17.6 302 10.4 311 10.8 2,893Source: Ministry of Social Development; Note: *% refers to % of young people receiving a benefit, rather than% of all young people; See Methods section for composition of “Other Benefits”; Non-Benefit Assistance notincluded; Service Centres include: Waikato: Cambridge, Dinsdale, Five Cross Roads, Glenview, Hamilton(including Super, Contact Centre, Employment Zone, Fraud), Hamilton East, Huntly, Matamata, Morrinsville,Ngaruawahia, Paeroa, Taumarunui, Te Awamutu, Te Kuiti; Bay of Plenty: Greerton, Kawerau, MountMaunganui, Opotiki, Tauranga (including Super), Te Puke, Whakatane, NZ Super Bay of PlentyYoung People Reliant on Benefits - 87