Australia Yearbook - 2001

256 Year Book Australia 2001
7.5 INCOME SUPPORT PAYMENTS(a)
1996–97
1997–98
1998–99
1999–00
Type of payment
$’000 $’000 $’000 $’000
Payments made under Social Security Act 1991
The retired
Age Pension 13 204 658 13 141 895 13 569 056 14 037 940
Wife Pension (Aged) . . 254 752 243 433 240 751
People with disabilities or the sick
Carer Payment . . 258 474 307 506 369 723
Child Disability Allowance(b) 233 106 248 429 244 896 . .
Carer Allowance(b) .. .. .. 412334
Disability Support Pension 5 299 148 4 599 452 4 920 223 5 253 241
Wife Pension (DSP) . . 599 136 534 069 479 205
Disability Wage Supplement(c) 2 193 2 034 . . . .
Mobility Allowance 38 118 41 863 46 137 52 096
Rehabilitation Allowance –36 –219 . . . .
Sickness Allowance 144 280 92 684 93 043 83 881
The unemployed
Austudy Payment(d) . . . . 287 173 253 870
Fares Allowance(d) . . . . 675 569
Job Search Allowance . . –47 105 . . . .
Newstart Allowance 6 047 829 5 804 836 5 370 669 4 954 450
Mature Age Allowance 472 469 443 380 401 698 367 250
Partner Allowance 497 841 532 278 590 185 646 460
Pensioner Education Supplement(d) . . . . 44 601 49 571
Student Financial Supplement(e) . . . . 259 745 290 681
Youth Allowance(f) . . . . 1 843 498 2 002 830
Families with children
Additional Family Payment –2927 .. .. ..
Basic Family Payment –2803 .. .. ..
Double Orphan Pension 1 681 1 778 1 725 1 779
Family Allowance 6 284 731 6 363 712 6 391 490 6 573 857
Family Tax Payment 288 564 558 735 546 217 531 927
Home Child Care Allowance –1049 .. .. ..
Maternity Allowance 196 716 183 607 167 085 195 809
Parenting Allowance(g) 2 216 628 1 570 502 –17 192 . .
Parenting Payment(g) . . 1 455 563 5 402 944 5 494 230
Sole Parent Pension(h) 2 992 322 2 206 233 –18 274 . .
Provision for special circumstances
Bereavement Allowance 1 178 997 734 782
Disaster Relief Payment –12 28 165 . .
Special Benefit 132 289 95 867 99 585 98 704
Widow Class ‘B’ Pension 296 905 147 187 105 694 89 849
Widow Allowance 117 273 180 112 227 289 270 825
Total 38 550 242 38 894 385 41 667 765 42 752 614
Payments made under other Acts
Childcare cash rebate(i) . . 123 050 117 000 164 447
Child Support Trust Account(j) . . 31 638 34 778 4 158
States Grants Housing Act 1971(k) . . 5 500 5 498 5 500
Youth Training Allowance(f)(l) 159 138 158 177 3 699 . .
Unexplained remittances . . 266 330 42
Total Special Appropriations(m) 38 550 242 39 054 839 41 825 371 42 926 761
(a) Expenditure for 1998–99 onwards is reported on an accrual basis and is not directly comparable to expenditure in previous years. (b) Carer Allowance replaces
Child Disability Allowance, and Domicilary Nursing Carer Benefit has been added (transferred from Department of Health and Aged Care on 1 July 1999). (c) Disability
Wage Supplement was abolished on 1 January 1998. All recipients were transferred to Disability Support Pension. (d) Replaces, in part, the former AUSTUDY
(Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs). (e) Previously administered by the (then) Department of Employment, Education, Training and
Youth Affairs. (f) From 1 July, 1998, Youth Allowance replaced payments made to certain recipients of the following: Newstart Allowance; Youth Training Allowance;
Sickness Allowance and AUSTUDY. (g) Parenting Allowance and Sole Parent Pension replaced by Parenting Payment on 20 March 1998. (h) Comprising Parenting
Payment (Partnered) and Parenting Payment (Sole Parent). (i) Payments made under the Childcare Rebate Act 1993 (transferred from the Department of Health and
Family Services in October 1998). (j) Payments made under the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 (transferred from the Department of the Treasury
in October 1998). These payments are to cover shortfalls in the Child Support Trust Account. (k) Payments made under the States Grants Housing Act 1971.
(l) Payments made under the Student and Youth Assistance Act 1973. (m) Components do not add to total as Youth Training Allowance is also included under
Newstart Allowance in this table.
Source: Department of Family and Community Services.