INCOME SUPPORT
The Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) is responsible for providing income support, via Centrelink, to:
- the aged;
- people with a disability;
- carers;
- youth and students;
- families with children;
- Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people;
- the homeless; and
- people living in rural and remote areas.
Of ACT Centrelink clients receiving income support at 1 July 2006, the highest number (39,295 people) were receiving some form of
Family tax benefit. This was followed by the
Age pension (18,468 people) and
Rent assistance (8,154 people).
8.1 Centrelink clients - Financial year 2005-06(a)(b)(c) |
|
 | | ACT clients | Australian clients | ACT clients as
proportion of
Australian clients |
| | no. | no. | % |
|
| Support for the aged | | | |
| Age pension(d) | 18 468 | 1 917 454 | 1.0 |
| Wife pension (age)(e) | 91 | 16 051 | 0.6 |
| Support for people with a disability | | | |
| Disability support pension | 7 281 | 712 205 | 1.0 |
| Wife pension (DSP)(f) | 112 | 24 360 | 0.5 |
| Sickness allowance(g) | 91 | 7 499 | 1.2 |
| Support for carers | | | |
| Carer payment | 670 | 105 876 | 0.6 |
| Carer allowance(h) | 3 984 | 384 932 | 1.0 |
| Labour market assistance | | | |
| Newstart allowance(g) | 4 009 | 436 257 | 0.9 |
| Newstart mature age allowance(g)(i) | 48 | 11 608 | 0.4 |
| Rent assistance(f) | 8 154 | 1 014 504 | 0.8 |
| Parenting payment single(f) | 4 661 | 432 958 | 1.1 |
| Parenting payment partnered(f) | 1 043 | 158 815 | 0.7 |
| Partner allowance(g) | 254 | 59 815 | 0.4 |
| Widow allowance(g)(j) | 329 | 44 426 | 0.7 |
| Youth and student support | | | |
| Austudy(f) | 446 | 27 714 | 1.6 |
| Youth allowance full-time(f) | 4 540 | 267 580 | 1.7 |
| Youth allowance other(f) | 726 | 76 751 | 0.9 |
| Family Assistance(d) | | | |
| Family tax benefit A(k)(l) | 22 402 | 1 811 818 | 1.2 |
| Family tax benefit B(k)(l) | 16 893 | 1 372 685 | 1.2 |
|
| (a) The above data represents a specific point in time (or snapshot) as at the date identified. |
| (b) Customer details are associated with Federal Electorate areas based on the address information provided to Centrelink. Approximately 2% of the total addresses are unable to be mapped to specific Federal Electorates. Because of this, customer numbers for Electorates may be slightly under-counted and cannot be compared directly with other Centrelink data. |
| (c) Current and suspended customers are included. |
| (d) Does not include Age Pensioners paid by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. |
| (e) From 1 July 1995 there have been no new grants of Wife Pension (Age). Current and suspended recipients (wife of a person receiving an Age Pension) may continue to receive this payment. |
| (f) Only current customers are included. |
| (g) Only current customers are included. Customers that did not receive a payment due to their own income and/or that of their partner, or parents (where applicable), are excluded. |
| (h) Health Care Card Only customers are included. |
| (i) Payment can no longer be claimed. No new claims for Newstart Mature Age Allowance from 20 September 2003. Figures represent current customers who claimed prior to 20 September 2003. |
| (j) No new claims after 1 July 2005 unless the woman was born on or before 1 July 1955. |
| (k) The above table provides information about FTB(A) and FTB(B) customers who receive their entitlement via fortnightly instalments through Centrelink. It does not include customers who claim FTB via lump sum through the ATO or Centrelink. These customers represent, approximately, an additional 10% of the population shown above. |
| (l) Some customers may be in receipt of both FTB(A) and FTB(B) in the above figures. |
| Centrelink, Data available on request. |
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